white-alder family

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   coextensive with the genus Clethra

   SynonymsClethraceaefamily Clethraceae

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofEricales

Questions about white-alder family

What does white-alder family mean?

white-alder family means "coextensive with the genus Clethra".

What is another word for white-alder family?

Close synonyms include Clethraceae, family Clethraceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white-alder family a common word?

white-alder family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.