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EBENALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae

Synonyms:

Ebenales; order Ebenales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ebenales"):

Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae (fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon)

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)

family Symplocaceae; sweetleaf family; Symplocaceae (a dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales)

family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family (a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales)

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

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)

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