FAMILY AQUIFOLIACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Aquifoliaceae mean? 

• FAMILY AQUIFOLIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY AQUIFOLIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed shrubs and trees

  Familiarity information: FAMILY AQUIFOLIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY AQUIFOLIACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Widely distributed shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aquifoliaceae; family Aquifoliaceae; holly family

Hypernyms ("family Aquifoliaceae" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "family Aquifoliaceae"):

genus Ilex; Ilex (a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies))

Holonyms ("family Aquifoliaceae" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)