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GENUS ROSA

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Meaning:

Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses

Synonyms:

genus Rosa; Rosa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Rosa"):

rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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