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• Family of flowering plants, most of these are herbaceous plants, but the family also includes some woody shrubs and a genus of small tropical trees. The family is outstanding for its many garden ornamentals and pharmaceutically important plants. Most species are found in the Northern Hemisphere.

• a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. Species of Oxyria are perennial herbaceous plants or weakly shrubby.

• a very large family of highly specialized perennial herbaceous monocotyledonous plants. Plants are distributed throughout the world, especially in wet tropics.
• commonly known as the orchid family

• Oleaceae are woody plants native to forested regions. Most members are trees or shrubs, but a minority, such as most jasmines, are woody climbers. Plants of the family are distributed throughout the world, except for the Arctic; they are especially abundant in tropical and temperate Asia. The tropical and warm-temperate species are evergreen; those from the colder North Temperate Zone are deciduous.
• the olive family
• A number of plants in the family are of economic or aesthetic importance: the olive tree is the source of olives and olive oil; the ashes (genus Fraxinus) are noted for their hardwood timber; and many genera are famous for their horticultural merit—e.g., Syringa (lilacs), Jasminum (jasmines), Ligustrum (privets), Forsythia (golden bell), and Osmanthus (tea olive).

Use for: Nakhi (Chinese people)

• An ethnic group of China who live mainly in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces; some live in Tibet. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language that is closely related to that of the Yi and were estimated in the early 21st century to number more than 300,000.

• 1: a treatise on some aspect of nature
• 2: the natural development of something (such as an organism or disease) over a period of time
• 3: the study of natural objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view