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GENUS GEOFFROEA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical America
Synonyms:
genus Geoffroea; Geoffroea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Geoffroea" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Geoffroea"):
chanal; chanar; Geoffroea decorticans (thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries)
Holonyms ("genus Geoffroea" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)