GENUS MONTEZUMA

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Meaning:

One species: medium-sized evergreen tree of Puerto Rico or Mexico

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Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Montezuma"):

Montezuma (evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae)

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

Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae (tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds)

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