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COMPTONIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: sweet fern

Synonyms:

Comptonia; genus Comptonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Comptonia" 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 "Comptonia"):

Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)

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

family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)

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