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    GNETACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetumplay

    Synonyms:

    family Gnetaceae; Gnetaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Gnetaceae" is a kind of...):

    gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "Gnetaceae"):

    genus Gnetum (type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones)

    Holonyms ("Gnetaceae" is a member of...):

    Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

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