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DOGBANE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
Synonyms:
Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dogbane 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 "dogbane family"):
genus Vinca; Vinca (periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials)
genus Trachelospermum; Trachelospermum (genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems)
genus Thevetia; Thevetia (genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers)
genus Tabernaemontana; Tabernaemontana (evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap)
genus Strophanthus (genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees)
genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia (pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees)
genus Plumeria; Plumeria; Plumiera (deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers)
genus Nerium; Nerium (one species: oleander)
Dipladenia; genus Dipladenia; genus Mandevilla; Mandevilla (genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap)
genus Holarrhena; Holarrhena (genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia)
Catharanthus; genus Catharanthus (small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca)
genus Carissa (Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs)
Beaumontia; genus Beaumontia (small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia)
Amsonia; genus Amsonia (genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America)
Alstonia; genus Alstonia (genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia)
genus Allamanda (genus of tropical American woody vines)
Adenium; genus Adenium (one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia)
Acocanthera; Acokanthera; genus Acocanthera; genus Acokanthera (small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa)
Apocynum; genus Apocynum (perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers)
Holonyms ("dogbane family" is a member of...):
Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)
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