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GENUS CANELLA
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I. (noun)
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Hypernyms ("genus Canella" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Canella"):
Canella-alba; Canella winterana; white cinnamon tree; wild cinnamon (large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes)
Holonyms ("genus Canella" is a member of...):
canella family; Canellaceae; family Canellaceae (one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies)