GENUS ABELIA

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Meaning:

Chiefly east Asian shrubs

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Abelia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Abelia"):

abelia (any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico)

Holonyms ("genus Abelia" is a member of...):

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)

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