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CARNEGIEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro
Synonyms:
Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Carnegiea" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Carnegiea"):
Carnegiea gigantea; saguaro; sahuaro (extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit)
Holonyms ("Carnegiea" is a member of...):
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)