clusiaceae

Noun
  1. Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber (synset 112384505)
    is a type of: dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
    member holonym:
    • calophyllum, genus calophyllum - genus of tropical evergreen trees
    • genus clusia - tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers
    • garcinia, genus garcinia - evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens
    • genus hypericum, hypericum - large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions
    • genus mammea, mammea - American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit
    • genus mesua, mesua - genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers
    belongs to: hypericales, order hypericales, order parietales, parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
    same as: family clusiaceae, family guttiferae, guttiferae, st john's wort family

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