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    FAMILY PODOCARPACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leavesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "family Podocarpaceae"):

    genus Sundacarpus; Sundacarpus (one species)

    genus Saxe-gothea; genus Saxegothea; Saxe-gothea; Saxegothea (one species: Prince Albert's yew)

    genus Retrophyllum; Retrophyllum (small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America)

    genus Prumnopitys; Prumnopitys (mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus)

    genus Parasitaxus; Parasitaxus (one species: parasite yew)

    genus Nageia; Nageia (small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea)

    genus Microstrobos; Microstrobos (2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)

    genus Lepidothamnus; Lepidothamnus (small usually shrubby conifers)

    genus Lagarostrobus; Lagarostrobus (genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium)

    genus Halocarpus; Halocarpus (dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium)

    Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)

    Dacrydium; genus Dacrydium (Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs)

    Dacrycarpus; genus Dacrycarpus (evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines)

    Afrocarpus; genus Afrocarpus (dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus)

    genus Podocarpus; Podocarpus (evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae)

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

    Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

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