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    VERBENACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and treesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Verbenaceae"):

    genus Verbena (type genus of the Verbenaceae; genus of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs)

    Avicennia; genus Avicennia (small genus of tropical shrubs or trees)

    Avicenniaceae; family Avicenniaceae (used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia)

    Aegiceras; genus Aegiceras (a genus of herbs of the family Verbenaceae)

    genus Tectona; Tectona (small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak)

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

    order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

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