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EPHEDRACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
Synonyms:
Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ephedraceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Ephedraceae"):
genus Ephedra (type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions)
Holonyms ("Ephedraceae" is a member of...):
Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)
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