HAMELIA

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Meaning:

Any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hamelia" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hamelia"):

coloradillo; Hamelia erecta; Hamelia patens; scarlet bush; scarlet hamelia (handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil)

Holonyms ("hamelia" is a member of...):

genus Hamelia (evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees)

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