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WILLOW FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populusplay

Synonyms:

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "willow family"):

genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)

genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)

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

order Salicales; Salicales (coextensive with the family Salicaceae)

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