LINDEN FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does linden family mean?
• LINDEN FAMILY (noun)
The noun LINDEN FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia
Familiarity information: LINDEN FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LINDEN FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae
Hypernyms ("linden family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "linden family"):
genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)
Entelea; genus Entelea (a genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand)
Corchorus; genus Corchorus (widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia)
genus Grewia; Grewia (a genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees)
genus Sparmannia; Sparmannia (small genus of tropical African shrubs)
Holonyms ("linden family" is a member of...):
Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)
