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OCHNA FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves

Synonyms:

family Ochnaceae; ochna family; Ochnaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "ochna family"):

genus Ochna; Ochna (type genus of Ochnaceae; evergreen trees and shrubs of Old World tropics)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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