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DILLENIACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Dilleniaceae mean?

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

1. chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia

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

Dictionary entry details

• DILLENIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Dilleniaceae"):

genus Dillenia (East Indian and Australian shrubs and trees having panicles of large white or yellow flowers)

genus Hibbertia; Hibbertia (evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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