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ELM FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema
Synonyms:
elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("elm family" 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 "elm family"):
genus Ulmus; Ulmus (type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions)
Celtis; genus Celtis (large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit)
genus Planera; Planera (a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States)
genus Trema; Trema (an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia)
Holonyms ("elm family" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
