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FAMILY CECROPIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classifications included in family Moraceae
Synonyms:
Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cecropiaceae" 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 "family Cecropiaceae"):
Cecropia; genus Cecropia (large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc)
Holonyms ("family Cecropiaceae" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)