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IVY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera
Synonyms:
Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ivy family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "ivy family"):
genus Aralia (type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club)
genus Hedera; Hedera (Old World woody vines)
genus Meryta; Meryta (small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates: puka)
genus Panax; Panax (perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng)
genus Schefflera; Schefflera (large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage)
Holonyms ("ivy family" is a member of...):
order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))
