noun
widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
• Syn: ↑family 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
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\\ˌgəˈtifəˌrē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a family of widely distributed chiefly tropical trees and shrubs (order Parietales) usually having opposite or whorled leaves, unisexual flowers, resinous sap, and oil glands and including plants producing valuable fruits, oils, and resins, and some usable timber
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Guttifˈerae plural noun (botany)
A family of archichlamydeous dicotyledons with abundant oil glands and passages, and entire exstipulate opposite leaves, including mangosteen, mammee apple, and St John's wort
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Main Entry: ↑gutta
Useful english dictionary. 2012.