GENUS SHORTIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Evergreen perennial herbs of North America and eastern Asia: oconee bells

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Shortia"):

shortia (any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers)

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

diapensia family; Diapensiaceae; family Diapensiaceae (north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales)

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