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CONOSPERMUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush
Synonyms:
Conospermum; genus Conospermum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Conospermum" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Conospermum"):
smoke bush (any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers)
Holonyms ("Conospermum" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)