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SALTWORT FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts

Synonyms:

Batidaceae; family Batidaceae; saltwort family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "saltwort family"):

Batis; genus Batis (small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs)

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

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)

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