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GENUS CLUSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Clusia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Clusia"):
clusia (an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers)
Clusia flava; wild fig (a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit)
Clusia insignis; waxflower (epiphytic clusia of British Guiana)
Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig (a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Clusia" is a member of...):
Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)
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