BURSERACEAE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Burseraceae mean?
• BURSERACEAE (noun)
The noun BURSERACEAE has 1 sense:
1. resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees
Familiarity information: BURSERACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BURSERACEAE (noun)
Meaning:
Resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Burseraceae; family Burseraceae; torchwood family
Hypernyms ("Burseraceae" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Burseraceae"):
incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)
Bursera; genus Bursera (type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi)
Boswellia; genus Boswellia (genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense)
Commiphora; genus Commiphora (genus of East Indian and African trees yielding balsamic products)
genus Protium; Protium (genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi)
Holonyms ("Burseraceae" is a member of...):
Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)
