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MELIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees
Synonyms:
family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Meliaceae" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Meliaceae"):
mahogany; mahogany tree (any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish)
genus Melia; Melia (type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash)
Azadirachta; genus Azadirachta (genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees)
Cedrela; genus Cedrela (tropical American trees)
Chloroxylon; genus Chloroxylon (deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka)
Entandrophragma; genus Entandrophragma (cedar mahogany trees)
Flindersia; genus Flindersia (small genus of Australian timber trees)
genus Khaya; Khaya (African mahogany trees)
genus Lansium (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae)
genus Lovoa; Lovoa (genus of African timber trees)
genus Swietinia; Swietinia (tropical American mahogany trees)
genus Toona; Toona (formerly included in genus Cedrela)
genus Turreae (genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia)
Holonyms ("Meliaceae" is a member of...):
Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)
