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AVICENNIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of tropical shrubs or trees
Synonyms:
Avicennia; genus Avicennia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Avicennia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Avicennia"):
Avicennia marina; black mangrove (a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground)
Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove (a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific)
Holonyms ("Avicennia" is a member of...):
family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)
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