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GENUS AILANTHUS

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Meaning:

Small genus of east Asian and Chinese trees with odd-pinnate leaves and long twisted samaras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Ailanthus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ailanthus"):

ailanthus (any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus)

Ailanthus altissima; tree of heaven; tree of the gods (deciduous rapidly growing tree of China with foliage like sumac and sweetish fetid flowers; widely planted in United States as a street tree because of its resistance to pollution)

Holonyms ("genus Ailanthus" is a member of...):

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit)

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