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    FAMILY STRELITZIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Strelitziaceae" 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 Strelitziaceae"):

    genus Strelitzia; Strelitzia (small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)

    genus Ravenala (woody tropical plants with tall trunks; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)

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

    Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)

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