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    GENUS RETAMA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genistaplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Retama; Retama

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Retama"):

    Genista raetam; juniper; juniper bush; raetam; Retama raetam; retem (desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista)

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

    Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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