GENUS SASSAFRAS

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Meaning:

A genus of sassafras

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Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sassafras"):

sassafras; Sassafras albidum; sassafras tree (yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America)

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

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)

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