HyperDic: strelitzia_family

English > 1 sense of the expression strelitzia family:
NOUNplantstrelitzia family, Strelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceaewoody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar
English > strelitzia family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningwoody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae.
SynonymsStrelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceae
Member ofMusales, order MusalesTropical plants
MembersStrelitzia, genus Strelitziasmall genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants
genus Ravenalawoody tropical plants with tall trunks
Broadermonocot family, liliopsid familyfamily of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

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