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    FAMILY MELIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental treesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "family Meliaceae"):

    mahogany; mahogany tree (any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish)

    genus Melia; Melia (type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash)

    Azadirachta; genus Azadirachta (genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees)

    Cedrela; genus Cedrela (tropical American trees)

    Chloroxylon; genus Chloroxylon (deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka)

    Entandrophragma; genus Entandrophragma (cedar mahogany trees)

    Flindersia; genus Flindersia (small genus of Australian timber trees)

    genus Khaya; Khaya (African mahogany trees)

    genus Lansium (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae)

    genus Lovoa; Lovoa (genus of African timber trees)

    genus Swietinia; Swietinia (tropical American mahogany trees)

    genus Toona; Toona (formerly included in genus Cedrela)

    genus Turreae (genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia)

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

    Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)

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