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STERCULIA FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large family of plants of order Malvales
Synonyms:
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sterculia family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "sterculia family"):
genus Sterculia (type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics)
Brachychiton; genus Brachychiton (Australian trees (usually with swollen trunks))
Cola; genus Cola (large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts)
genus Dombeya (genus of African shrubs or small trees)
Firmiana; genus Firmiana (small genus of Asian trees or shrubs)
Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)
genus Helicteres; Helicteres (genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another)
genus Heritiera; genus Terrietia; Heritiera; Terrietia (small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses)
genus Hermannia; Hermannia (genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers)
genus Pterospermum; Pterospermum (genus of tropical Asian trees and shrubs)
genus Tarrietia; Tarrietia (small genus of east Asian and Australian timber trees)
genus Theobroma; Theobroma (cacao plants)
genus Triplochiton; Triplochiton (small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves)
Holonyms ("sterculia family" is a member of...):
Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)
