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HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubs and small trees and woody vines
Synonyms:
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("honeysuckle family" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "honeysuckle family"):
genus Abelia (chiefly east Asian shrubs)
Diervilla; genus Diervilla (small genus of low deciduous shrubs: bush honeysuckles)
genus Leycesteria; Leycesteria (small species of shrubs of western Himalayas to China)
genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)
genus Lonicera; Lonicera (woodbine)
genus Symphoricarpos; Symphoricarpos (deciduous shrubs of North America and Central America and China)
common snowberry; snowberry; Symphoricarpos alba; waxberry (deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries)
genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)
genus Triostium; Triostium (genus of Asiatic and North American herbs: feverroot)
genus Viburnum; Viburnum (deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree)
genus Weigela (east Asian flowering shrubs)
Holonyms ("honeysuckle family" is a member of...):
order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)
