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WILLOW FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus
Synonyms:
family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family
Classified under:
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)