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GENUS COLA

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Meaning:

Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts

Synonyms:

Cola; genus Cola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Cola"):

Cola acuminata; goora nut; kola; kola nut; kola nut tree (tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract)

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

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)

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