COMPTONIA ASPLENIFOLIA

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Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

Synonyms:

Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Comptonia asplenifolia" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Comptonia asplenifolia" is a member of...):

Comptonia; genus Comptonia (one species: sweet fern)

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