TAMARISK FAMILY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)

Synonyms:

family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tamarisk family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "tamarisk family"):

genus Tamarix; Tamarix (genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia)

genus Myricaria; Myricaria (small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil)

Holonyms ("tamarisk family" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)