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COTONEASTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cotoneaster" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotoneaster"):
Cotoneaster dammeri (climbing evergreen shrub with white flowers and red berries; often used as ground cover)
Cotoneaster horizontalis (deciduous flat-growing shrub with a fanned herringbone pattern and having reddish flowers and orange-red berries; used as a ground cover)
Holonyms ("cotoneaster" is a member of...):
genus Cotoneaster (genus of deciduous or evergreen Old World shrubs widely cultivated)
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