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    GENUS POPULUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplarsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Populus; Populus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Populus"):

    poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

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

    family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)

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