GENUS MAMMILLARIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mammillaria"):

mammillaria (any cactus of the genus Mammillaria)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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