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    ORITES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of Australian shrubs or treesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Orites; Orites

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Orites" 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 "Orites"):

    Orites excelsa; prickly ash (Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers)

    Holonyms ("Orites" is a member of...):

    family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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