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GENUS BEAUMONTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia
Synonyms:
Beaumontia; genus Beaumontia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Beaumontia" 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 "genus Beaumontia"):
Beaumontia grandiflora; Easter lily vine; Nepal trumpet flower (evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Beaumontia" is a member of...):
Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)
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