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GUAYULE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
Synonyms:
guayule; Parthenium argentatum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("guayule" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("guayule" is a member of...):
genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)