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BUCKTHORN FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value
Synonyms:
buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buckthorn family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "buckthorn family"):
genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)
Colubrina; genus Colubrina (mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits)
genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)
genus Paliurus; Paliurus (thorny Eurasian shrubs)
genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)
Holonyms ("buckthorn family" is a member of...):
order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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