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FAMILY RHIZOPHORACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts
Synonyms:
family Rhizophoraceae; mangrove family; Rhizophoraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Rhizophoraceae" 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 Rhizophoraceae"):
genus Rhizophora; Rhizophora (type genus of the Rhizophoraceae; a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs)
Holonyms ("family Rhizophoraceae" is a member of...):
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
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