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CROWBERRY FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heathlike shrubs

Synonyms:

crowberry family; Empetraceae; family Empetraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("crowberry family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "crowberry family"):

Empetrum; genus Empetrum (crowberries)

Holonyms ("crowberry family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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