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GENUS EMPETRUM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Crowberries

Synonyms:

Empetrum; genus Empetrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Empetrum" 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 Empetrum"):

crowberry (a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit)

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

crowberry family; Empetraceae; family Empetraceae (heathlike shrubs)

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