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GENUS PETUNIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America
Synonyms:
genus Petunia; Petunia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Petunia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Petunia"):
petunia (any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Petunia" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
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