MAGNOLIA FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnolia family mean? 

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

1. subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNOLIA FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

Subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae

Hypernyms ("magnolia 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 "magnolia family"):

genus Illicium; Illicium (anise trees: evergreen trees with aromatic leaves)

genus Magnolia (shrubs or trees of North America or Asia having entire evergreen or deciduous leaves; among most ancient of angiosperm genera)

genus Manglietia; manglietia (a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China)

genus Liriodendron; Liriodendron (tulip trees)

Holonyms ("magnolia 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)