Definition of meliaceae Meliaceae
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What does meliaceae mean?
WordNet
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| meliaceae - tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees | ||
| family Meliaceae, mahogany family | ||
| rosid dicot family a family of dicotyledonous plants | ||
| geraniales, order geraniales an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae | ||
| mahogany 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 polish | ||
| genus melia, melia type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash | ||
| azadirachta, genus azadirachta genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees | ||
| cedrela, genus cedrela tropical American trees | ||
| chloroxylon, genus chloroxylon deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka | ||
| entandrophragma, genus entandrophragma cedar mahogany trees | ||
| flindersia, genus flindersia small genus of Australian timber trees | ||
| genus khaya, khaya African mahogany trees | ||
| genus lansium a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae | ||
| genus lovoa, lovoa genus of African timber trees | ||
| genus swietinia, swietinia tropical American mahogany trees | ||
| genus toona, toona formerly included in genus Cedrela | ||
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Part of speech
🔤- meliaceae, noun, singular of meliaceaes.
