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FAMILY CHLORANTHACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Synonyms:
Chloranthaceae; family Chloranthaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Chloranthaceae" 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 Chloranthaceae"):
Chloranthus; genus Chloranthus (type genus of the Chloranthaceae)
Holonyms ("family Chloranthaceae" is a member of...):
order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)