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CARNEGIEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro

Synonyms:

Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Carnegiea"):

Carnegiea gigantea; saguaro; sahuaro (extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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