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SOUR-GUM FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees

Synonyms:

family Nyssaceae; Nyssaceae; sour-gum family; tupelo family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sour-gum family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "sour-gum family"):

genus Nyssa; Nyssa (tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds)

Holonyms ("sour-gum family" is a member of...):

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

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