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EPHEDRACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

Synonyms:

Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Ephedraceae"):

genus Ephedra (type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions)

Holonyms ("Ephedraceae" 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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