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    FAMILY BOMBACACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seedsplay

    Synonyms:

    Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

    Meronyms (members of "family Bombacaceae"):

    Bombax; genus Bombax (trees of chiefly South America)

    Adansonia; genus Adansonia (baobab; cream-of-tartar tree)

    Ceiba; genus Ceiba (tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers)

    Durio; genus Durio (a genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae)

    genus Montezuma (one species: medium-sized evergreen tree of Puerto Rico or Mexico)

    genus Ochroma; Ochroma (one species: balsa)

    genus Pseudobombax; Pseudobombax (tropical American deciduous shrubs or small trees)

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

    Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

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