Ebenaceae

Thesaurus

Noun

Ebenaceae - fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmonebony family, family Ebenaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationEbenales, order Ebenales - trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or SymplocaceaeDiospyros, genus Diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood

Ebenaceae

[‚eb·ə′nās·ē‚ē] (botany) A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Ebenales, in which a latex system is absent and flowers are mostly unisexual with the styles separate, at least distally.

Ebenaceae

a family of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs. The leaves are usually alternate and entire. The regular flowers are for the most part unisexual and three– to seven-parted. The fruit most often is a berry. There are about 450 species, making up five to seven genera. The plants occur mainly in the tropics and subtropics. In the USSR species of the largest genus—Diospyros (persimmon)—grow in the Caucasus. Many Ebenaceae yield valuable lumber (ebony) and edible fruit.

Ebenaceae

Related to Ebenaceae: Theaceae

noun

Synonyms for Ebenaceae

noun fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon

Synonyms

ebony family
family Ebenaceae

Related Words

dicot family
magnoliopsid family
Ebenales
order Ebenales
Diospyros
genus Diospyros

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