noun
widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
• Syn: ↑Guttiferae, ↑Clusiaceae, ↑family Clusiaceae, ↑St John's wort family
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales
• Member Meronyms:
↑Calophyllum, ↑genus Calophyllum, ↑genus Clusia, ↑Garcinia, ↑genus Garcinia, ↑Hypericum, ↑genus Hypericum, ↑Mammea, ↑genus Mammea, ↑Mesua, ↑genus Mesua
Useful english dictionary. 2012.