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GENUS PINCKNEYA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America
Synonyms:
genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pinckneya" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pinckneya"):
bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens (ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever)
Holonyms ("genus Pinckneya" 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)
