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BERBERIDACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Berberidaceae mean?

• BERBERIDACEAE (noun)
The noun BERBERIDACEAE has 1 sense:

1. shrubs or herbs

Familiarity information: BERBERIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BERBERIDACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Berberidaceae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Shrubs or herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae

Hypernyms ("Berberidaceae" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Berberidaceae"):

Berberis; genus Berberis (large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds)

Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

Epimedium; genus Epimedium (herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia)

genus Mahonia; Mahonia (evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia)

genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum (perennial rhizomatous herbs)

Holonyms ("Berberidaceae" is a member of...):

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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