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    RHAMNACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal valueplay

    Synonyms:

    buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Rhamnaceae" is a kind of...):

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Rhamnaceae"):

    genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)

    Colubrina; genus Colubrina (mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits)

    genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)

    genus Paliurus; Paliurus (thorny Eurasian shrubs)

    genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)

    Holonyms ("Rhamnaceae" is a member of...):

    order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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