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OXALIDACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Oxalidaceae mean?

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

1. a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers

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

Dictionary entry details

• OXALIDACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Oxalidaceae; Oxalidaceae; wood-sorrel family

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Oxalidaceae"):

genus Oxalis (type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels)

Averrhoa; genus Averrhoa (trees native to East Indies having pinnate leaves: carambolas)

Holonyms ("Oxalidaceae" 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)

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