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    FAMILY STERCULIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A large family of plants of order Malvalesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Sterculiaceae"):

    genus Sterculia (type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics)

    Brachychiton; genus Brachychiton (Australian trees (usually with swollen trunks))

    Cola; genus Cola (large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts)

    genus Dombeya (genus of African shrubs or small trees)

    Firmiana; genus Firmiana (small genus of Asian trees or shrubs)

    Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)

    genus Helicteres; Helicteres (genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another)

    genus Heritiera; genus Terrietia; Heritiera; Terrietia (small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses)

    genus Hermannia; Hermannia (genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers)

    genus Pterospermum; Pterospermum (genus of tropical Asian trees and shrubs)

    genus Tarrietia; Tarrietia (small genus of east Asian and Australian timber trees)

    genus Theobroma; Theobroma (cacao plants)

    genus Triplochiton; Triplochiton (small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves)

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

    Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

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