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FAMILY GNETACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum
Synonyms:
family Gnetaceae; Gnetaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Gnetaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "family Gnetaceae"):
genus Gnetum (type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones)
Holonyms ("family Gnetaceae" 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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