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    WILLOW FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populusplay

    Synonyms:

    family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

    Meronyms (members of "willow family"):

    genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)

    genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)

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

    order Salicales; Salicales (coextensive with the family Salicaceae)

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