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staff-tree family — noun trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright colored fruits • Syn: ↑Celastraceae, ↑family Celastraceae, ↑spindle tree family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
spindle tree — noun Date: 1548 any of various often evergreen shrubs, small trees, or vines (genus Euonymus) of the staff tree family … New Collegiate Dictionary
spindle tree — /ˈspɪndl tri/ (say spindl tree) noun 1. a shrub or small tree of Europe and western Asia, Euonymus europaeus (family Celastraceae), with a hard wood formerly much used for making spindles. 2. any of various allied plants …
family Celastraceae — noun trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright colored fruits • Syn: ↑Celastraceae, ↑spindle tree family, ↑staff tree family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
dicot family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑magnoliopsid family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
magnoliopsid family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑dicot family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
family — Synonyms and related words: affiliation, agnate, ancestors, ancestry, animal kingdom, antonomasia, apparentation, ashram, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bloodline, body … Moby Thesaurus
List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family — The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.=GYMNOSPERMS= =CONIFERS= Araucariaceae: The… … Wikipedia
Kadamba tree — Kadamba tree, botanical name Anthocephalus cadamba and Nauclea cadamba of the Rubiaceae family, is common in Indian subcontinent. The name Kadamba is a suffix to the dynasty of Mayursharma, the progenitor of his dynasty the Kadamba Dynasty which… … Wikipedia
European spindle — Taxobox name = PAGENAME image width = 250px image caption = European Spindle ( Euonymus europaeus ) regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Celastrales familia = Celastraceae genus = Euonymus species = E. europaeus … Wikipedia
