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COTINUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Smoke trees

Synonyms:

Cotinus; genus Cotinus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cotinus" 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 "Cotinus"):

smoke bush; smoke tree (any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus)

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

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)

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