MELIACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Meliaceae mean? 

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

1. tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELIACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Meliaceae"):

genus Toona; Toona (formerly included in genus Cedrela)

genus Swietinia; Swietinia (tropical American mahogany trees)

genus Lovoa; Lovoa (genus of African timber trees)

genus Lansium (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae)

genus Khaya; Khaya (African mahogany trees)

Flindersia; genus Flindersia (small genus of Australian timber trees)

Entandrophragma; genus Entandrophragma (cedar mahogany trees)

Chloroxylon; genus Chloroxylon (deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka)

Cedrela; genus Cedrela (tropical American trees)

Azadirachta; genus Azadirachta (genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees)

genus Melia; Melia (type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash)

mahogany; mahogany tree (any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish)

genus Turreae (genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia)

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

Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)