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ORDER EBENALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae
Synonyms:
Ebenales; order Ebenales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Ebenales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Ebenales"):
Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae (fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon)
family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)
family Symplocaceae; sweetleaf family; Symplocaceae (a dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales)
family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family (a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales)
Holonyms ("order Ebenales" is a member of...):
class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)
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