FOUQUIERIACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fouquieriaceae mean? 

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

1. small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUQUIERIACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Fouquieriaceae; Fouquieriaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Fouquieriaceae"):

Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)