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    FAMILY PALMAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmalesplay

    Synonyms:

    Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "family Palmae"):

    genus Thrinax; Thrinax (small to medium-sized fan palms)

    genus Serenoa; Serenoa (one species: saw palmetto)

    genus Sabal; Sabal (American dwarf fan palms)

    genus Roystonea; Roystonea (a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms)

    genus Rhapis; Rhapis (genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan)

    genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia (feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes)

    genus Phytelephas; phytelephas (small genus of South American feather palms)

    genus Phoenix; phoenix (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)

    genus Phoenicophorium; phoenicophorium (latanier palm)

    genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)

    genus Nipa; genus Nypa; Nipa; Nypa (monotypic genus of palms of Australasia)

    genus Metroxylon; Metroxylon (a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die)

    genus Livistona; Livistona (fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia)

    Euterpe; genus Euterpe (a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America)

    Elaeis; genus Elaeis (oil palms)

    Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)

    genus Corozo (a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees)

    Copernicia; genus Copernicia (slow-growing tropical fan palms)

    Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

    Ceroxylon; genus Ceroxylon (wax palms)

    Caryota; genus Caryota (fishtail palms)

    genus Calamus (distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest)

    Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)

    Attalea; genus Attalea (unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America)

    Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)

    genus Areca (a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees)

    Acrocomia; genus Acrocomia (Central and South American feather palms)

    palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

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

    order Palmales; Palmales (coextensive with the family Palmae: palms)

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