noun
trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value
• Syn: ↑Rhamnaceae, ↑family Rhamnaceae
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Rhamnales, ↑order Rhamnales
• Member Meronyms:
↑Rhamnus, ↑genus Rhamnus, ↑Colubrina, ↑genus Colubrina, ↑Ziziphus, ↑genus Ziziphus, ↑Paliurus, ↑genus Paliurus, ↑Pomaderris, ↑genus Pomaderris
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the plant family Rhamnaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having alternate, simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a drupe or capsule, and including the buckthorn, cascara, and New Jersey tea.
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buckthorn family,
a family of trees and shrubs of wide distribution, including the buckthorn, the jujube, and the ceanothus.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.