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GENUS MITCHELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creeping evergreen herbs of North America
Synonyms:
genus Mitchella; Mitchella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Mitchella" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mitchella"):
boxberry; Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry (creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries)
Holonyms ("genus Mitchella" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
