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    GENUS CISTUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africaplay

    Synonyms:

    Cistus; genus Cistus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cistus"):

    rock rose; rockrose (small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage)

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

    Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)

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