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GENUS TITHONIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of robust herbs of Mexico and Central America: Mexican sunflower
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Tithonia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tithonia"):
Mexican sunflower; tithonia (any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays)
Holonyms ("genus Tithonia" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
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