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CERCIDIPHYLLUM

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Meaning:

One species: katsura tree

Synonyms:

Cercidiphyllum; genus Cercidiphyllum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cercidiphyllum"):

Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree (rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn)

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

Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)

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