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GENUS APOCYNUM

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Meaning:

Perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers

Synonyms:

Apocynum; genus Apocynum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Apocynum" 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 "genus Apocynum"):

dogbane (any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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