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PACHYSANDRA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pachysandra" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pachysandra"):

Allegheny mountain spurge; Allegheny spurge; Pachysandra procumbens (low semi-evergreen perennial herb having small spikes of white or pinkish flowers; native to southern United States but grown elsewhere)

Japanese spurge; Pachysandra terminalis (slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover)

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

genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)

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