GENUS EUCALYPTUS

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Meaning:

Tall trees native to the Australian region; source of timber and medicinal oils from the aromatic leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Eucalyptus" 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 Eucalyptus"):

eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)

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

family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)

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