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    GENUS ENCELIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebushplay

    Synonyms:

    Encelia; genus Encelia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Encelia"):

    brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso (fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine)

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

    aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)

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