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    LAUREL FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of Lauraceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "laurel family"):

    laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

    genus Laurus; Laurus (small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves)

    Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum (Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs)

    genus Lindera; Lindera (aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America)

    Benzoin; genus Benzoin (used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera)

    genus Persea; Persea (avocado)

    genus Sassafras (a genus of sassafras)

    genus Umbellularia; Umbellularia (aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast)

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

    order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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