GENUS PEPEROMIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Peperomia"):

peperomia (any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage)

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

family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae (tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets)

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