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HALESIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America
Synonyms:
genus Halesia; Halesia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Halesia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Halesia"):
silver bell (any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("Halesia" is a member of...):
family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family (a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales)