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    GENUS CESTRUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of fragrant tropical American shrubsplay

    Synonyms:

    Cestrum; genus Cestrum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cestrum"):

    Cestrum diurnum; day jessamine (West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped white flowers that are fragrant by day)

    Cestrum nocturnum; night jasmine; night jessamine (West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by night)

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

    family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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