HyperDic: olive_family

English > 1 sense of the expression olive family:
NOUNplantolive family, Oleaceae, family Oleaceaetrees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits
English > olive family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningTrees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac.
SynonymsOleaceae, family Oleaceae
Member ofGentianales, order GentianalesAn order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers
MembersChionanthus, genus Chionanthusdeciduous trees or shrubs
Fraxinus, genus Fraxinusash
Jasminum, genus Jasminumshrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World
Ligustrum, genus Ligustrumgenus of Old World shrubs
Olea, genus Oleaevergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
Osmanthus, genus Osmanthuswidely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan
Phillyrea, genus Phillyreasmall genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region
Syringa, genus Syringagenus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles
genus Forestieragenus of often spiny American shrubs and trees
genus Forsythiaforsythia
Broaderdicot family, magnoliopsid familyfamily of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanisholeáceas
CatalanOleaceae

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