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    TAMARISK FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)play

    Synonyms:

    family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "tamarisk family"):

    genus Tamarix; Tamarix (genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia)

    genus Myricaria; Myricaria (small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil)

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

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

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