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    GENUS MALVAVISCUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallowsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Malvaviscus"):

    sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow (any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers)

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

    family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)

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