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GENUS PYRACANTHA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian evergreen thorny shrubs bearing red or orange-red berries
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pyracantha" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pyracantha"):
fire thorn; firethorn; pyracanth; Pyracantha (any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries)
Holonyms ("genus Pyracantha" is a member of...):
family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)
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