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COMPTONIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Synonyms:
Comptonia; genus Comptonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Comptonia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Comptonia"):
Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)
Holonyms ("Comptonia" is a member of...):
family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)