mangrove family

English Thesaurus

1. trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot family, magnoliopsid family,
definition	:	family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus rhizophora, rhizophora,
definition	:	type genus of the Rhizophoraceae; a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	myrtales, order myrtales, order thymelaeales, thymelaeales,
definition	:	Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae (noun.plant)