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GELSEMIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: gelsemia   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia

Synonyms:

Gelsemium; genus Gelsemium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Gelsemium" 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 "Gelsemium"):

Carolina jasmine; evening trumpet flower; Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jasmine; yellow jessamine (poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers)

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

family Loganiaceae; Loganiaceae (a dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales)

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