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CEREUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white

Synonyms:

Cereus; genus Cereus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Cereus"):

night-blooming cereus (any of several cacti of the genus Cereus)

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

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

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