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GENUS CLEOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs
Synonyms:
Cleome; genus Cleome
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cleome" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cleome"):
cleome; spiderflower (any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Cleome" is a member of...):
caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae (a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia)
