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PINCKNEYA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America
Synonyms:
genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pinckneya" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Pinckneya"):
bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens (ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever)
Holonyms ("Pinckneya" 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)
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