LAUREL FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does laurel family mean?
• LAUREL FAMILY (noun)
The noun LAUREL FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of Lauraceae
Familiarity information: LAUREL FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LAUREL FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
A family of Lauraceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family
Hypernyms ("laurel family" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "laurel family"):
laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)
genus Laurus; Laurus (small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves)
Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum (Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs)
genus Lindera; Lindera (aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America)
Benzoin; genus Benzoin (used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera)
genus Persea; Persea (avocado)
genus Sassafras (a genus of sassafras)
genus Umbellularia; Umbellularia (aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast)
Holonyms ("laurel family" is a member of...):
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)
