family araliaceae

Noun
  1. Mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera (synset 111817213)
    is a type of: rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym:
    • genus aralia - type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club
    • genus hedera, hedera - Old World woody vines
    • genus meryta, meryta - small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates: puka
    • genus panax, panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng
    • genus schefflera, schefflera - large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage
    belongs to: order umbellales, umbellales - plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)
    same as: araliaceae, ivy family

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