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GENUS CHIOCOCCA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World
Synonyms:
Chiococca; genus Chiococca
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Chiococca" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Chiococca"):
blolly; Chiococca alba; West Indian snowberry (evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries)
Holonyms ("genus Chiococca" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)