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SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits
Synonyms:
Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spindle-tree 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 "spindle-tree family"):
Catha; genus Catha (a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers)
Celastrus; genus Celastrus (genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet)
Euonymus; genus Euonymus (widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines)
Holonyms ("spindle-tree family" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
