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    SORBUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leavesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Sorbus; Sorbus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Sorbus"):

    mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)

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

    family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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