English > St John's wort family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber. |
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| Synonyms | Guttiferae, family Guttiferae, Clusiaceae, family Clusiaceae |
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| Member of | Parietales, order Parietales, Hypericales, order Hypericales | A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae |
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| Members | Calophyllum, genus Calophyllum | genus of tropical evergreen trees |
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| Garcinia, genus Garcinia | evergreen trees and shrubs |
| Hypericum, genus Hypericum | large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers |
| Mammea, genus Mammea | American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit |
| Mesua, genus Mesua | genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers |
| genus Clusia | Tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs |
| Broader | dilleniid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
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| Spanish | gutíferas, Guttiferae |
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| Catalan | Clusiaceae, gutíferes, Guttiferae |
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