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MULBERRY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis
Synonyms:
family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mulberry 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 "mulberry family"):
genus Morus; Morus (type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries)
genus Maclura; Maclura (yellowwood trees or shrubs)
Artocarpus; genus Artocarpus (evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit)
Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)
Broussonetia; genus Broussonetia (paper mulberry)
Holonyms ("mulberry family" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
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