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BEAUMONTIA

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Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia

Synonyms:

Beaumontia; genus Beaumontia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Beaumontia"):

Beaumontia grandiflora; Easter lily vine; Nepal trumpet flower (evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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