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CORNACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingiaplay

Synonyms:

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Cornaceae"):

Aucuba; genus Aucuba (hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan)

Cornus; genus Cornus (a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere)

Corokia; genus Corokia (evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand)

Curtisia; genus Curtisia (a large evergreen tree of South Africa)

genus Griselinia; Griselinia (evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America)

genus Helwingia; Helwingia (deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan)

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

order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))

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