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FLACOURTIA FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs

Synonyms:

family Flacourtiaceae; flacourtia family; Flacourtiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flacourtia family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "flacourtia family"):

Flacourtia; genus Flacourtia (often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa)

Dovyalis; genus Dovyalis (small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka)

genus Hydnocarpus; genus Taraktagenos; genus Taraktogenos; Hydnocarpus; Taraktagenos; Taraktogenos (medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees)

genus Idesia (one species)

genus Kiggelaria; Kiggelaria (small genus of South African shrubs or small trees)

genus Xylosma (genus of tropical American and Asiatic spiny evergreen trees and shrubs)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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