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EPACRIS

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Meaning:

Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

Australian heath (any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epacris"):

common heath; Epacris impressa (spindly upright shrub of southern Australia and Tasmania having white to rose or purple-red flowers)

blunt-leaf heath; common heath; Epacris obtusifolia (small erect shrub of Australia and Tasmania with fragrant ivory flowers)

Epacris purpurascens; Port Jackson heath (small shrub of southern and western Australia having pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers)

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

genus Epacris (type genus of the Epacridaceae: Australian heath)

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