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SWEETLEAF FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales
Synonyms:
family Symplocaceae; sweetleaf family; Symplocaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweetleaf 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 "sweetleaf family"):
genus Symplocus; Symplocus (type and sole genus of Symplocaceae including sweetleaf)
Holonyms ("sweetleaf family" is a member of...):
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)