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Fouquieriaceae

noun

small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States

• Syn: ↑family Fouquieriaceae

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales

• Member Meronyms: ↑Fouquieria, ↑genus Fouquieria

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\(ˌ)füˌkirēˈāsēˌē, ˌfükēˌir-, ˌfükēˌer-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Fouquieria, type genus + -aceae

: a small family of spiny shrubs of trees (order Parietales) of southwestern No. America

Useful english dictionary. 2012.