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SANDALWOOD FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit

Synonyms:

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "sandalwood family"):

genus Santalum; Santalum (parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia)

genus Buckleya (small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs)

Comandra; genus Comandra (small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants)

Eucarya; Fusanus; genus Eucarya; genus Fusanus (quandong trees)

genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)

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

order Santalales; Santalales (order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots)

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