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CONOSPERMUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush

Synonyms:

Conospermum; genus Conospermum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Conospermum" 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 "Conospermum"):

smoke bush (any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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