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    VIOLET FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytusplay

    Synonyms:

    family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "violet family"):

    genus Viola; Viola (large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions)

    genus Hybanthus; Hybanthus (a genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions)

    genus Hymenanthera; Hymenanthera (a genus of slender evergreen shrubs; grow in Australia and New Zealand)

    genus Melicytus; Melicytus (a genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands)

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

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

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