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ELAEOCARPACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Elaeocarpaceae mean?

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

1. genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae

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

Dictionary entry details

• ELAEOCARPACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Elaeocarpaceae"):

Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)

Aristotelia; genus Aristotelia (small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and western South America)

genus Muntingia; Muntingia (one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae)

genus Sloanea; Sloanea (genus of tropical hardwood timber trees)

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

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

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