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WELWITSCHIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Welwitschiaceae mean? 

WELWITSCHIACEAE (noun)
  The noun WELWITSCHIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. in some classifications included in the Gnetaceaeplay

  Familiarity information: WELWITSCHIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELWITSCHIACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae

Hypernyms ("Welwitschiaceae" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Welwitschiaceae"):

genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)

Holonyms ("Welwitschiaceae" is a member of...):

Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)


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