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GENUS EUONYMUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines
Synonyms:
Euonymus; genus Euonymus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Euonymus" 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 Euonymus"):
spindle tree; spindleberry; spindleberry tree (any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries)
burning bush; Euonymus atropurpureus; wahoo (deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds)
Euonymus americanus; strawberry bush; wahoo (upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas)
Euonymus fortunei radicans; Euonymus radicans vegetus; evergreen bittersweet (broad and bushy Asiatic twining shrub with pinkish fruit; many subspecies or varieties)
Holonyms ("genus Euonymus" is a member of...):
Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family (trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits)
