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FAMILY ARAUCARIACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Araucariaceae mean?

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

1. tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae

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

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY ARAUCARIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Araucariaceae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "family Araucariaceae"):

Wollemi pine (newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned)

genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)

Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)

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

Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

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