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CHLORANTHACEAE

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Meaning:

Small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees

Synonyms:

Chloranthaceae; family Chloranthaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Chloranthaceae"):

Chloranthus; genus Chloranthus (type genus of the Chloranthaceae)

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

order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)

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