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    SANDALWOOD FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "sandalwood family"):

    genus Santalum; Santalum (parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia)

    genus Buckleya (small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs)

    Comandra; genus Comandra (small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants)

    Eucarya; Fusanus; genus Eucarya; genus Fusanus (quandong trees)

    genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)

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

    order Santalales; Santalales (order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots)

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