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    FAMILY CAPRIFOLIACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrubs and small trees and woody vinesplay

    Synonyms:

    Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Caprifoliaceae"):

    genus Abelia (chiefly east Asian shrubs)

    Diervilla; genus Diervilla (small genus of low deciduous shrubs: bush honeysuckles)

    genus Leycesteria; Leycesteria (small species of shrubs of western Himalayas to China)

    genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)

    genus Lonicera; Lonicera (woodbine)

    genus Symphoricarpos; Symphoricarpos (deciduous shrubs of North America and Central America and China)

    common snowberry; snowberry; Symphoricarpos alba; waxberry (deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries)

    genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)

    genus Triostium; Triostium (genus of Asiatic and North American herbs: feverroot)

    genus Viburnum; Viburnum (deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree)

    genus Weigela (east Asian flowering shrubs)

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

    order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)

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