GENUS FUCHSIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Fuchsia" 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 Fuchsia"):

fuchsia (any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti)

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

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)

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