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EMBOTHRIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters
Synonyms:
Embothrium; genus Embothrium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Embothrium" 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 "Embothrium"):
Chilean firebush; Chilean flameflower; Embothrium coccineum (grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes)
Holonyms ("Embothrium" 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)
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