QUASSIA FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does quassia family mean?
• QUASSIA FAMILY (noun)
The noun QUASSIA FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit
Familiarity information: QUASSIA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• QUASSIA FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae
Hypernyms ("quassia family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "quassia family"):
bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)
genus Simarouba; Simarouba (type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark)
genus Ailanthus (small genus of east Asian and Chinese trees with odd-pinnate leaves and long twisted samaras)
genus Irvingia; Irvingia (wild mango)
genus Kirkia; Kirkia (small genus of tropical South African trees and shrubs)
genus Picrasma; Picrasma (small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia)
genus Quassia (tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal)
Holonyms ("quassia family" 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)
