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FAMILY VERBENACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Synonyms:
family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Verbenaceae" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "family Verbenaceae"):
genus Verbena (type genus of the Verbenaceae; genus of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs)
Avicennia; genus Avicennia (small genus of tropical shrubs or trees)
Avicenniaceae; family Avicenniaceae (used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia)
Aegiceras; genus Aegiceras (a genus of herbs of the family Verbenaceae)
genus Tectona; Tectona (small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak)
Holonyms ("family Verbenaceae" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
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