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PLANE-TREE FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees

Synonyms:

family Platanaceae; plane-tree family; Platanaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plane-tree family" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "plane-tree family"):

genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)

Holonyms ("plane-tree family" is a member of...):

order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)

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