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GENUS PLUMBAGO

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Meaning:

Shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Plumbago"):

plumbago (any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago)

leadwort; Plumbago europaea (a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers)

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

family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family (perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas)

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