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FAMILY CYRILLIACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia
Synonyms:
cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cyrilliaceae" is a kind of...):
dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)
Meronyms (members of "family Cyrilliaceae"):
genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)
Cliftonia; genus Cliftonia (one species: titi)
Holonyms ("family Cyrilliaceae" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)