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    FAMILY BERBERIDACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrubs or herbsplay

    Synonyms:

    barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "family Berberidaceae"):

    Berberis; genus Berberis (large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds)

    Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

    Epimedium; genus Epimedium (herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia)

    genus Mahonia; Mahonia (evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia)

    genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum (perennial rhizomatous herbs)

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

    order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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