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GENUS GAULTHERIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsplay

Synonyms:

Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Gaultheria" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gaultheria"):

creeping snowberry; Gaultheria hispidula; maidenhair berry; moxie plum (slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds)

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil)

Gaultheria shallon; salal; shallon (small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries)

Holonyms ("genus Gaultheria" is a member of...):

Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)

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