GENUS HAMELIA

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Meaning:

Evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Hamelia"):

hamelia (any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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