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FOUQUIERIACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States

Synonyms:

family Fouquieriaceae; Fouquieriaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Fouquieriaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Fouquieriaceae"):

Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)

Holonyms ("Fouquieriaceae" is a member of...):

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

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