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    FAMILY OLEACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilacplay

    Synonyms:

    family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "family Oleaceae"):

    genus Olea; Olea (evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits)

    Chionanthus; genus Chionanthus (deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree)

    genus Forestiera (genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees)

    genus Forsythia (forsythia)

    Fraxinus; genus Fraxinus (ash)

    genus Jasminum; Jasminum (shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine)

    genus Ligustrum; Ligustrum (genus of Old World shrubs: privet)

    genus Osmanthus; Osmanthus (widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan)

    genus Phillyrea; Phillyrea (small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region)

    genus Syringa; Syringa (genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs)

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

    Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)

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