family apocynaceae
English Thesaurus
1. chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | dicot family, magnoliopsid family, |
| definition | : | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | apocynum, genus apocynum, |
| definition | : | perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | adenium, genus adenium, |
| definition | : | one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus allamanda, |
| definition | : | genus of tropical American woody vines (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | alstonia, genus alstonia, |
| definition | : | genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | amsonia, genus amsonia, |
| definition | : | genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | beaumontia, genus beaumontia, |
| definition | : | small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus carissa, |
| definition | : | Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | catharanthus, genus catharanthus, |
| definition | : | small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus holarrhena, holarrhena, |
| definition | : | genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus plumeria, plumeria, plumiera, |
| definition | : | deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus strophanthus, |
| definition | : | genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus thevetia, thevetia, |
| definition | : | genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus vinca, vinca, |
| definition | : | periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | gentianales, order gentianales, |
| definition | : | an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae (noun.plant) |
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