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    CYRILLA FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftoniaplay

    Synonyms:

    cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)

    Meronyms (members of "cyrilla family"):

    genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)

    Cliftonia; genus Cliftonia (one species: titi)

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

    order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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