family chloranthaceae

English Thesaurus

1. small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees (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	:	chloranthus, genus chloranthus,
definition	:	type genus of the Chloranthaceae (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order piperales, piperales,
definition	:	Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae (noun.plant)