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ABUTILON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow
Synonyms:
Abutilon; genus Abutilon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Abutilon" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Abutilon"):
flowering maple (an ornamental plant of the genus Abutilon having leaves that resemble maple leaves)
Abutilon theophrasti; butter-print; China jute; Indian mallow; velvet-leaf; velvetleaf; velvetweed (tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States)
Holonyms ("Abutilon" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)