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FAMILY CISTACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
Synonyms:
Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cistaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family Cistaceae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
