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FAMILY EBENACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon

Synonyms:

Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Ebenaceae" 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 Ebenaceae"):

Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)

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

Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)

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