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QUASSIA FAMILY

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Meaning:

Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit

Synonyms:

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "quassia family"):

bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)

genus Simarouba; Simarouba (type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark)

genus Ailanthus (small genus of east Asian and Chinese trees with odd-pinnate leaves and long twisted samaras)

genus Irvingia; Irvingia (wild mango)

genus Kirkia; Kirkia (small genus of tropical South African trees and shrubs)

genus Picrasma; Picrasma (small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia)

genus Quassia (tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal)

Holonyms ("quassia family" 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)

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