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GENUS AMELANCHIER

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Meaning:

North American deciduous trees or shrubs

Synonyms:

Amelanchier; genus Amelanchier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Amelanchier"):

Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush (any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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