GENUS STERCULIA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Sterculia"):

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)

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

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)

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