GENUS STYRAX

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Meaning:

Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Styrax" 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 Styrax"):

styrax (any shrub or small tree of the genus Styrax having fragrant bell-shaped flowers that hang below the dark green foliage)

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

family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family (a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales)

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