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GENUS UMBELLULARIA

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Meaning:

Aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast

Synonyms:

genus Umbellularia; Umbellularia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Umbellularia" 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 Umbellularia"):

California bay tree; California laurel; California olive; mountain laurel; Oregon myrtle; pepperwood; sassafras laurel; spice tree; Umbellularia californica (Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood)

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

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

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