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TAMARISK FAMILY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does tamarisk family mean?

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

1. family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)

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

Dictionary entry details

• TAMARISK FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

Family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "tamarisk family"):

genus Tamarix; Tamarix (genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia)

genus Myricaria; Myricaria (small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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