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FAMILY LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa
Synonyms:
family Lepidobotryaceae; Lepidobotryaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Lepidobotryaceae" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "family Lepidobotryaceae"):
genus Lepidobotrys (a genus of dicotyledonous trees belonging to the family Lepidobotryaceae)
genus Ruptiliocarpon; Ruptiliocarpon (new (1993) genus of trees of Central America now recognized as similar to those of genus Lepidobotrys)
Holonyms ("family Lepidobotryaceae" is a member of...):
Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)
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