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    GENUS AVICENNIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of tropical shrubs or treesplay

    Synonyms:

    Avicennia; genus Avicennia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Avicennia"):

    Avicennia marina; black mangrove (a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground)

    Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove (a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific)

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

    family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)

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