GENUS ASTILBE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly Asiatic perennials: spirea

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Astilbe"):

astilbe (any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)

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