MANGROVE FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does mangrove family mean? • MANGROVE FAMILY (noun)
The noun MANGROVE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts
Familiarity information: MANGROVE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MANGROVE FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Rhizophoraceae; mangrove family; Rhizophoraceae
Hypernyms ("mangrove family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "mangrove family"):
genus Rhizophora; Rhizophora (type genus of the Rhizophoraceae; a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs)
Holonyms ("mangrove family" 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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