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CISTACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean

Synonyms:

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Cistaceae"):

Cistus; genus Cistus (small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa)

genus Helianthemum (widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia)

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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