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    GENUS ARDISIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americasplay

    Synonyms:

    Ardisia; genus Ardisia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Ardisia" 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 Ardisia"):

    Ardisia crenata; coralberry; spiceberry (shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India)

    Ardisia escallonoides; Ardisia paniculata; marlberry (tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries)

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

    family Myrsinaceae; Myrsinaceae; myrsine family (family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida)

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