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    GENUS COMPTONIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    One species: sweet fernplay

    Synonyms:

    Comptonia; genus Comptonia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Comptonia"):

    Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)

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

    family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)

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