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AVICENNIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical shrubs or trees

Synonyms:

Avicennia; genus Avicennia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Avicennia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Avicennia"):

Avicennia marina; black mangrove (a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground)

Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove (a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific)

Holonyms ("Avicennia" is a member of...):

family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)

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