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GENUS MACROZAMIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of large evergreen Australian cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Macrozamia"):

macrozamia (any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia)

burrawong; Macrozamia communis; Macrozamia spiralis (large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales)

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

family Zamiaceae; zamia family; Zamiaceae (a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias)

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