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GNETACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum

Synonyms:

family Gnetaceae; Gnetaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Gnetaceae"):

genus Gnetum (type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones)

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

Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

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