GENUS HOVEA

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Meaning:

Genus of Australian evergreen shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hovea"):

hovea; purple pea (any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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