English > family Oleaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac. |
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| Synonyms | Oleaceae, olive family |
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| Member of | Gentianales, order Gentianales | An order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers |
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| Members | Chionanthus, genus Chionanthus | deciduous trees or shrubs |
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| Fraxinus, genus Fraxinus | ash |
| Jasminum, genus Jasminum | shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World |
| Ligustrum, genus Ligustrum | genus of Old World shrubs |
| Olea, genus Olea | evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits |
| Osmanthus, genus Osmanthus | widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan |
| Phillyrea, genus Phillyrea | small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region |
| Syringa, genus Syringa | genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles |
| genus Forestiera | genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees |
| genus Forsythia | forsythia |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | oleáceas |
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| Catalan | Oleaceae |
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