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GENUS HAMELIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Hamelia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hamelia"):
hamelia (any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia)
Holonyms ("genus Hamelia" 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)