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    ALLIONIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllalesplay

    Synonyms:

    Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

    Meronyms (members of "Allioniaceae"):

    genus Nyctaginia; Nyctaginia (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species)

    Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)

    Allionia; genus Allionia (small genus of chiefly American herbs)

    Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillea (ornamental tropical woody vines)

    genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis (four o'clocks)

    genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)

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

    Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)

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