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    EPHEDRACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "Ephedraceae"):

    genus Ephedra (type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions)

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

    Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

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