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CORNUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere
Synonyms:
Cornus; genus Cornus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cornus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Cornus"):
cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)
Holonyms ("Cornus" is a member of...):
Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)
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