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BRUNFELSIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits

Synonyms:

Brunfelsia; genus Brunfelsia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Brunfelsia"):

Brunfelsia americana; lady-of-the-night (West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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