family amygdalaceae

English Thesaurus

1. used in former classifications for plum and peach and almond trees which are now usually classified as members of the genus Prunus (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	:	amygdalus, genus amygdalus,
definition	:	used in former classifications for peach and almond trees which are now included in genus Prunus (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family rosaceae, rosaceae, rose family,
definition	:	a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens (noun.plant)