family Meliaceae

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family Meliaceae - tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees mahogany family, Meliaceae rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants Geraniales, order Geraniales - an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae mahogany tree, mahogany - any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish genus Melia, Melia - type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash Azadirachta, genus Azadirachta - genus of large important East Indian trees: neem trees Cedrela, genus Cedrela - tropical American trees Chloroxylon, genus Chloroxylon - deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka Entandrophragma, genus Entandrophragma - cedar mahogany trees Flindersia, genus Flindersia - small genus of Australian timber trees genus Khaya, Khaya - African mahogany trees genus Lansium - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Meliaceae genus Lovoa, Lovoa - genus of African timber trees genus Swietinia, Swietinia - tropical American mahogany trees genus Toona, Toona - formerly included in genus Cedrela genus Turreae - genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia