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)