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TILIACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Tiliaceae mean?

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

1. chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia

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

Dictionary entry details

• TILIACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Tiliaceae"):

genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)

Entelea; genus Entelea (a genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand)

Corchorus; genus Corchorus (widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia)

genus Grewia; Grewia (a genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees)

genus Sparmannia; Sparmannia (small genus of tropical African shrubs)

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

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

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