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    STAFF-TREE FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruitsplay

    Synonyms:

    Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("staff-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 "staff-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 ("staff-tree family" is a member of...):

    order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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