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GENUS CYRILLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cyrilla" 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 Cyrilla"):
cyrilla; Cyrilla racemiflora; leatherwood; white titi (shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage)
Holonyms ("genus Cyrilla" is a member of...):
cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family (shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia)
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