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    FAMILY TILIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmanniaplay

    Synonyms:

    family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Tiliaceae"):

    genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)

    Entelea; genus Entelea (a genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand)

    Corchorus; genus Corchorus (widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia)

    genus Grewia; Grewia (a genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees)

    genus Sparmannia; Sparmannia (small genus of tropical African shrubs)

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

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

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