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    GENUS BUCKLEYA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Buckleya"):

    buckleya; Buckleya distichophylla (parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits)

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

    family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)

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