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    ULMACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Tremaplay

    Synonyms:

    elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Ulmaceae" is a kind of...):

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Ulmaceae"):

    genus Ulmus; Ulmus (type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions)

    Celtis; genus Celtis (large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit)

    genus Planera; Planera (a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States)

    genus Trema; Trema (an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia)

    Holonyms ("Ulmaceae" is a member of...):

    order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)

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