GENUS DAPHNE

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Meaning:

Usually evergreen Eurasian shrubs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Daphne"):

daphne (any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers)

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

daphne family; family Thymelaeaceae; Thymelaeaceae (family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa)

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