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Noun: ebony family  'e-bun-ee'fa-mu-lee
  1. Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
    - Ebenaceae, family Ebenaceae

Derived forms: ebony families

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: Ebenales, order Ebenales

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