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FAMILY PALMAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
Synonyms:
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Palmae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "family Palmae"):
genus Thrinax; Thrinax (small to medium-sized fan palms)
genus Serenoa; Serenoa (one species: saw palmetto)
genus Sabal; Sabal (American dwarf fan palms)
genus Roystonea; Roystonea (a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms)
genus Rhapis; Rhapis (genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan)
genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia (feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes)
genus Phytelephas; phytelephas (small genus of South American feather palms)
genus Phoenix; phoenix (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)
genus Phoenicophorium; phoenicophorium (latanier palm)
genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)
genus Nipa; genus Nypa; Nipa; Nypa (monotypic genus of palms of Australasia)
genus Metroxylon; Metroxylon (a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die)
genus Livistona; Livistona (fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia)
Euterpe; genus Euterpe (a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America)
Elaeis; genus Elaeis (oil palms)
Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)
genus Corozo (a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees)
Copernicia; genus Copernicia (slow-growing tropical fan palms)
Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)
Ceroxylon; genus Ceroxylon (wax palms)
Caryota; genus Caryota (fishtail palms)
genus Calamus (distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest)
Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)
Attalea; genus Attalea (unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America)
Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)
genus Areca (a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees)
Acrocomia; genus Acrocomia (Central and South American feather palms)
palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)
Holonyms ("family Palmae" is a member of...):
order Palmales; Palmales (coextensive with the family Palmae: palms)
