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GENUS CLUSIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Clusia"):

clusia (an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers)

Clusia flava; wild fig (a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit)

Clusia insignis; waxflower (epiphytic clusia of British Guiana)

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig (a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers)

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

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)

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