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AEGICERAS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of herbs of the family Verbenaceae

Synonyms:

Aegiceras; genus Aegiceras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Aegiceras" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Aegiceras"):

Aegiceras majus; black mangrove (an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida)

Holonyms ("Aegiceras" is a member of...):

family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)

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