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    GENUS GELSEMIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Gelsemium; genus Gelsemium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Gelsemium" 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 Gelsemium"):

    Carolina jasmine; evening trumpet flower; Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jasmine; yellow jessamine (poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers)

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

    family Loganiaceae; Loganiaceae (a dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales)

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