GENUS DILLENIA

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Meaning:

East Indian and Australian shrubs and trees having panicles of large white or yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Dillenia"):

dillenia (any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves)

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

Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae (chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia)

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