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FAMILY SYMPLOCACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales

Synonyms:

family Symplocaceae; sweetleaf family; Symplocaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Symplocaceae" 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 Symplocaceae"):

genus Symplocus; Symplocus (type and sole genus of Symplocaceae including sweetleaf)

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

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

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