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    GENUS TABERNAEMONTANA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sapplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Tabernaemontana; Tabernaemontana

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Tabernaemontana" 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 Tabernaemontana"):

    Adam's apple; coffee rose; crape jasmine; crepe gardenia; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; Nero's crown; pinwheel flower; Tabernaemontana divaricate (tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand)

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

    Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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