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    FAMILY CISTACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterraneanplay

    Synonyms:

    Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Cistaceae"):

    Cistus; genus Cistus (small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa)

    genus Helianthemum (widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia)

    genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)

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

    Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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