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    GENUS AMSONIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Amsonia; genus Amsonia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Amsonia" 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 "genus Amsonia"):

    Amsonia tabernaemontana; blue star (subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes)

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

    Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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