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SCREW-PINE FAMILY

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Meaning:

Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus

Synonyms:

family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("screw-pine family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "screw-pine family"):

genus Pandanus (type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines))

Holonyms ("screw-pine family" is a member of...):

order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)

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