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ARAUCARIA FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae

Synonyms:

araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "araucaria family"):

Wollemi pine (newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned)

genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)

Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)

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

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

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