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FAMILY BOMBACACEAE

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Meaning:

Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds

Synonyms:

Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "family Bombacaceae"):

Bombax; genus Bombax (trees of chiefly South America)

Adansonia; genus Adansonia (baobab; cream-of-tartar tree)

Ceiba; genus Ceiba (tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers)

Durio; genus Durio (a genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae)

genus Montezuma (one species: medium-sized evergreen tree of Puerto Rico or Mexico)

genus Ochroma; Ochroma (one species: balsa)

genus Pseudobombax; Pseudobombax (tropical American deciduous shrubs or small trees)

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

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

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