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CALYCANTHUS

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Meaning:

A magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice

Synonyms:

Calycanthus; genus Calycanthus

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Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Calycanthus"):

allspice (deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States)

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

Calycanthaceae; calycanthus family; family Calycanthaceae; strawberry-shrub family (shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia)

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