HyperDic: family_meliaceae

English > 1 sense of the expression family Meliaceae:
NOUNplantfamily Meliaceae, Meliaceae, mahogany familytropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees
English > family Meliaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningTropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees.
SynonymsMeliaceae, mahogany family
Member ofGeraniales, order GeranialesAn order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants
MembersAzadirachta, genus Azadirachtagenus of large important East Indian trees
Cedrela, genus CedrelaTropical American trees
Chloroxylon, genus Chloroxylondeciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka
Entandrophragma, genus Entandrophragmacedar mahogany trees
Flindersia, genus Flindersiasmall genus of Australian timber trees
Khaya, genus KhayaAfrican mahogany trees
Lovoa, genus Lovoagenus of African timber trees
Melia, genus Meliatype genus of the Meliaceae
Swietinia, genus SwietiniaTropical American mahogany trees
Toona, genus Toonaformerly included in genus Cedrela
genus LansiumA dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae
genus Turreaegenus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia
mahogany, mahogany treeAny of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
Broaderrosid dicot familyA family of dicotyledonous plants
Spanishmeliáceas
CatalanMeliaceae, meliàcia, meliàcies

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