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    EMBOTHRIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clustersplay

    Synonyms:

    Embothrium; genus Embothrium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Embothrium" 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 "Embothrium"):

    Chilean firebush; Chilean flameflower; Embothrium coccineum (grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes)

    Holonyms ("Embothrium" 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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