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    GENUS RHUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)play

    Synonyms:

    genus Rhus; Rhus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Rhus" 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 Rhus"):

    shumac; sumac; sumach (a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus))

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

    Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)

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