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    ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timberplay

    Synonyms:

    Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("St John's wort family" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "St John's wort family"):

    Calophyllum; genus Calophyllum (genus of tropical evergreen trees)

    genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)

    Garcinia; genus Garcinia (evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens)

    genus Hypericum; Hypericum (large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions)

    genus Mammea; Mammea (American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit)

    genus Mesua; Mesua (genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers)

    Holonyms ("St John's wort family" is a member of...):

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

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