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ARAUCARIA FAMILY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae
Synonyms:
araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("araucaria family" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "araucaria family"):
Wollemi pine (newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned)
genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)
Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)
Holonyms ("araucaria family" is a member of...):
Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)