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ALLIONIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
Synonyms:
Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Allioniaceae" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Allioniaceae"):
genus Nyctaginia; Nyctaginia (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species)
Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)
Allionia; genus Allionia (small genus of chiefly American herbs)
Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillea (ornamental tropical woody vines)
genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis (four o'clocks)
genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)
Holonyms ("Allioniaceae" is a member of...):
Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)
