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WELWITSCHIACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

In some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

Synonyms:

family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Welwitschiaceae"):

genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)

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

Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

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