family Meliaceae

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family Meliaceae - tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental treesmahogany family, Meliaceaerosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plantsGeraniales, order Geraniales - an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceaemahogany tree, mahogany - 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 polishgenus Melia, Melia - type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ashAzadirachta, genus Azadirachta - genus of large important East Indian trees: neem treesCedrela, genus Cedrela - tropical American treesChloroxylon, genus Chloroxylon - deciduous trees of India and Sri LankaEntandrophragma, genus Entandrophragma - cedar mahogany treesFlindersia, genus Flindersia - small genus of Australian timber treesgenus Khaya, Khaya - African mahogany treesgenus Lansium - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceaegenus Lovoa, Lovoa - genus of African timber treesgenus Swietinia, Swietinia - tropical American mahogany treesgenus Toona, Toona - formerly included in genus Cedrelagenus Turreae - genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia