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RUBUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of brambles bearing berries
Synonyms:
genus Rubus; Rubus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Rubus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Rubus"):
bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)
dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)
Holonyms ("Rubus" 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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