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HOLLY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed shrubs and trees
Synonyms:
Aquifoliaceae; family Aquifoliaceae; holly family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("holly family" 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 "holly family"):
genus Ilex; Ilex (a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies))
Holonyms ("holly family" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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