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FAMILY CECROPIACEAE

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Meaning:

In some classifications included in family Moraceae

Synonyms:

Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Cecropiaceae" 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 "family Cecropiaceae"):

Cecropia; genus Cecropia (large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc)

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

order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)

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