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• A family of plants made up of trees and shrubs, distributed primarily throughout temperate regions. Members of the family are deciduous or evergreen and characteristically have watery sap. Several members of the family are cultivated as ornamental plants, and some are important for their wood. Commonly known as the elm family.

Use for: elm

• A plant genus in the family Ulmaceae. Consists of forest and ornamental shade trees, native primarily to north temperate areas. Many are cultivated for their height and attractive foliage.

• Here, with appropriate local subdivision, are entered works on the discipline of ethnology, and works on the origin, distribution, and characteristics of the elements of the population of a particular region or country. Theoretical works on the concept of groups of people who are bound together by common ties of ancestry and culture are entered under [Ethnic groups.] Works on the subjective sense of belonging to an individual ethnic group are entered under [Ethnicity.] General works on racial, religious, ethnic, or other minority groups are entered under [Minorities.]

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• subdivision [Food] under ethnic groups

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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.

Use for: Ethnic costume, Clothes, costume, dress

• 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).