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FAMILY MELASTOMACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Melastomaceae mean?

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

1. a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals

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

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY MELASTOMACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; meadow-beauty family; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "family Melastomaceae"):

genus Melastoma; Melastoma (type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries)

genus Medinilla; Medinilla (tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers)

genus Rhexia; Rhexia (deer grass)

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

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