PODOCARPUS FAMILY

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

1. gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves

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

• PODOCARPUS FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

Gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family

Hypernyms ("podocarpus family" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "podocarpus family"):

genus Saxe-gothea; genus Saxegothea; Saxe-gothea; Saxegothea (one species: Prince Albert's yew)

genus Retrophyllum; Retrophyllum (small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America)

genus Prumnopitys; Prumnopitys (mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus)

genus Parasitaxus; Parasitaxus (one species: parasite yew)

genus Nageia; Nageia (small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea)

genus Microstrobos; Microstrobos (2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)

genus Lepidothamnus; Lepidothamnus (small usually shrubby conifers)

genus Lagarostrobus; Lagarostrobus (genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium)

genus Halocarpus; Halocarpus (dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium)

Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)

Dacrydium; genus Dacrydium (Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs)

Dacrycarpus; genus Dacrycarpus (evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines)

Afrocarpus; genus Afrocarpus (dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus)

genus Podocarpus; Podocarpus (evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae)

genus Sundacarpus; Sundacarpus (one species)

Holonyms ("podocarpus family" is a member of...):

Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)