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    BEAN-CAPER FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larreaplay

    Synonyms:

    bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bean-caper family" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "bean-caper family"):

    genus Zygophyllum; Zygophyllum (usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers)

    Bulnesia; genus Bulnesia (palo santo)

    genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum (small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America)

    genus Larrea; Larrea (xerophytic evergreen shrubs; South America to southwestern United States)

    genus Tribulus; Tribulus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions)

    Holonyms ("bean-caper 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)

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