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GENUS DOMBEYA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of African shrubs or small trees
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Dombeya" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Dombeya"):
dombeya (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves)
Holonyms ("genus Dombeya" is a member of...):
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)