meliaceae
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Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees (synset 112715468)
is a type of: rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plantsmember holonym:
- mahogany, mahogany tree - any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
- genus melia, melia - type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash
- azadirachta, genus azadirachta - genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees
- cedrela, genus cedrela - tropical American trees
- chloroxylon, genus chloroxylon - deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka
- entandrophragma, genus entandrophragma - cedar mahogany trees
- flindersia, genus flindersia - small genus of Australian timber trees
- genus khaya, khaya - African mahogany trees
- genus lansium - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae
- genus lovoa, lovoa - genus of African timber trees
- genus swietinia, swietinia - tropical American mahogany trees
- genus toona, toona - formerly included in genus Cedrela
- genus turreae - genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia
belongs to: geraniales, order geraniales - an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceaesame as: family meliaceae, mahogany family
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