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GENUS GUEVINA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: Chilean nut

Synonyms:

genus Guevina; Guevina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Guevina" 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 Guevina"):

Chile hazel; Chile nut; Chilean hazelnut; Chilean nut; Guevina avellana; Guevina heterophylla (Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed resembling a hazelnut)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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