English > family Meliaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees. |
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| Synonyms | Meliaceae, mahogany family |
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| Member of | Geraniales, order Geraniales | An order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants |
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| Members | Azadirachta, genus Azadirachta | genus of large important East Indian trees |
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| Cedrela, genus Cedrela | Tropical American trees |
| Chloroxylon, genus Chloroxylon | deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka |
| Entandrophragma, genus Entandrophragma | cedar mahogany trees |
| Flindersia, genus Flindersia | small genus of Australian timber trees |
| Khaya, genus Khaya | African mahogany trees |
| Lovoa, genus Lovoa | genus of African timber trees |
| Melia, genus Melia | type genus of the Meliaceae |
| Swietinia, genus Swietinia | Tropical American mahogany trees |
| Toona, genus Toona | formerly included in genus Cedrela |
| genus Lansium | A dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae |
| genus Turreae | genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia |
| mahogany, mahogany tree | Any 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 |
| Broader | rosid dicot family | A family of dicotyledonous plants |
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| Spanish | meliáceas |
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| Catalan | Meliaceae, meliàcia, meliàcies |
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