GENUS MAGNOLIA

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Meaning:

Shrubs or trees of North America or Asia having entire evergreen or deciduous leaves; among most ancient of angiosperm genera

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Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Magnolia"):

magnolia (any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms)

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

family Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae (subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia)

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