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MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
Synonyms:
family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; meadow-beauty family; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("meadow-beauty family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "meadow-beauty family"):
genus Melastoma; Melastoma (type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries)
genus Medinilla; Medinilla (tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers)
genus Rhexia; Rhexia (deer grass)
Holonyms ("meadow-beauty family" is a member of...):
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
