GENUS ARBUTUS

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Meaning:

Large evergreen shrubs and trees of southern Europe and western North America: strawberry tree; madrona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Arbutus"):

arbutus (any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America)

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

Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)

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