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CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs
Synonyms:
Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("custard-apple family" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "custard-apple family"):
Annona; genus Annona (type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs)
Asimina; genus Asimina (pawpaw)
Cananga; Canangium; genus Cananga; genus Canangium (a genus of Malayan tree)
genus Oxandra; Oxandra (genus of tropical trees)
genus Xylopia; Xylopia (tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African)
Holonyms ("custard-apple family" is a member of...):
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)
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