theophrastaceae

English Thesaurus

1. family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot family, magnoliopsid family,
definition	:	family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus jacquinia, jacquinia,
definition	:	sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order primulales, primulales,
definition	:	Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae (noun.plant)