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FAMILY BERBERIDACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubs or herbs
Synonyms:
barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Berberidaceae" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "family Berberidaceae"):
Berberis; genus Berberis (large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds)
Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)
Epimedium; genus Epimedium (herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia)
genus Mahonia; Mahonia (evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia)
genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum (perennial rhizomatous herbs)
Holonyms ("family Berberidaceae" 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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