family Cornaceae

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Noun

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family Cornaceae - a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia Cornaceae, dogwood family rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants order Umbellales, Umbellales - plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs) Aucuba, genus Aucuba - hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan Cornus, genus Cornus - a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere Corokia, genus Corokia - evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand Curtisia, genus Curtisia - a large evergreen tree of South Africa genus Griselinia, Griselinia - evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America genus Helwingia, Helwingia - deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan

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