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FAMILY PODOCARPACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves
Synonyms:
family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Podocarpaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "family Podocarpaceae"):
genus Sundacarpus; Sundacarpus (one species)
genus Saxe-gothea; genus Saxegothea; Saxe-gothea; Saxegothea (one species: Prince Albert's yew)
genus Retrophyllum; Retrophyllum (small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America)
genus Prumnopitys; Prumnopitys (mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus)
genus Parasitaxus; Parasitaxus (one species: parasite yew)
genus Nageia; Nageia (small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea)
genus Microstrobos; Microstrobos (2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)
genus Lepidothamnus; Lepidothamnus (small usually shrubby conifers)
genus Lagarostrobus; Lagarostrobus (genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium)
genus Halocarpus; Halocarpus (dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium)
Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)
Dacrydium; genus Dacrydium (Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs)
Dacrycarpus; genus Dacrycarpus (evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines)
Afrocarpus; genus Afrocarpus (dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus)
genus Podocarpus; Podocarpus (evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae)
Holonyms ("family Podocarpaceae" is a member of...):
Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)
