GENUS LEPIDOBOTRYS

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Meaning:

A genus of dicotyledonous trees belonging to the family Lepidobotryaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lepidobotrys"):

lepidobotrys (African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds)

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

family Lepidobotryaceae; Lepidobotryaceae (family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa)

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