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TITI FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia

Synonyms:

cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)

Meronyms (members of "titi family"):

genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)

Cliftonia; genus Cliftonia (one species: titi)

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

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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