olive family

1. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits;
   Sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive;
   Ash;
   Jasmine;
   Privet;
   Lilac (synset 112320505)
   is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • genus olea, olea - evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
   • chionanthus, genus chionanthus - deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree
   • genus forestiera - genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees
   • genus forsythia - forsythia
   • fraxinus, genus fraxinus - ash
   • genus jasminum, jasminum - shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine
   • genus ligustrum, ligustrum - genus of Old World shrubs: privet
   • genus osmanthus, osmanthus - widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan
   • genus phillyrea, phillyrea - small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region
   • genus syringa, syringa - genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs
   belongs to: gentianales, order gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae
   same as: family oleaceae, oleaceae

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