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GENUS ARALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Aralia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Aralia"):
aralia (any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers)
American angelica tree; Aralia spinosa; devil's walking stick; Hercules'-club (small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States)
Aralia nudicaulis; false sarsaparilla; wild sarsaparilla; wild sarsparilla (common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America)
American spikenard; Aralia racemosa; life-of-man; petty morel (unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico)
Aralia hispida; bristly sarsaparilla; bristly sarsparilla; dwarf elder (bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark)
Aralia elata; Japanese angelica tree (deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Aralia" is a member of...):
Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)
