GENUS PAVONIA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical hairy shrubs or herbs of tropics and subtropics especially South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Pavonia"):

pavonia (any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers)

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

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

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