GENUS CYRILLA

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Meaning:

One species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Cyrilla" 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 Cyrilla"):

cyrilla; Cyrilla racemiflora; leatherwood; white titi (shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage)

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

cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family (shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia)

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