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EBONY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
Synonyms:
Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ebony 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 "ebony family"):
Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)
Holonyms ("ebony family" is a member of...):
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)
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