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GENUS GARDENIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gardenia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gardenia"):
gardenia (any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Gardenia" 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)
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