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    RABBITWOOD

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupesplay

    Synonyms:

    buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)

    Meronyms (parts of "rabbitwood"):

    buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)

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

    genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)

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