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GENUS CALAMUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Sparidae
Synonyms:
Calamus; genus Calamus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Calamus" is a kind of...):
fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
Meronyms (members of "genus Calamus"):
Calamus penna; sheepshead porgy (from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil)
Holonyms ("genus Calamus" is a member of...):
family Sparidae; Sparidae (porgies; scups)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Calamus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Calamus"):
calamus (any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes)
Holonyms ("genus Calamus" is a member of...):
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)
