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SALVADORA FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals
Synonyms:
family Salvadoraceae; Salvadora family; Salvadoraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Salvadora 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 "Salvadora family"):
genus Salvadora; Salvadora (genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China)
Holonyms ("Salvadora family" is a member of...):
Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)
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