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TEMPLETONIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of Australian shrubs or subshrubs: coral bush

Synonyms:

genus Templetonia; Templetonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Templetonia"):

coral bush; flame bush; Templetonia retusa (Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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