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STRELITZIA FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae
Synonyms:
family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("strelitzia family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "strelitzia family"):
genus Strelitzia; Strelitzia (small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)
genus Ravenala (woody tropical plants with tall trunks; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)
Holonyms ("strelitzia family" is a member of...):
Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)
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