buckthorn family

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buckthorn family - trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

family Rhamnaceae, Rhamnaceae

dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

order Rhamnales, Rhamnales - an order of dicotyledonous plants

genus Rhamnus, Rhamnus - type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns

Colubrina, genus Colubrina - mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits

genus Ziziphus, Ziziphus - spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes

genus Paliurus, Paliurus - thorny Eurasian shrubs

genus Pomaderris, Pomaderris - a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees

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