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GENUS HYDRANGEA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Hydrangea" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hydrangea"):
hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)
climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea anomala (deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads)
Hydrangea arborescens; wild hydrangea (deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States)
hortensia; Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis (deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue)
fall-blooming hydrangea; Hydrangea paniculata (deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters)
climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea petiolaris (deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads)
Holonyms ("genus Hydrangea" is a member of...):
family Hydrangeaceae; hydrangea family; Hydrangeaceae (sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae)
