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PSYCHOTRIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees
Synonyms:
genus Psychotria; Psychotria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Psychotria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Psychotria"):
lemon-wood; lemon-wood tree; lemonwood; lemonwood tree; Psychotria capensis (South African evergreen having hard tough wood)
Holonyms ("Psychotria" 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)