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HYDRANGEA

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Meaning:

Any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hydrangea" 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 "hydrangea"):

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea anomala (deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads)

Hydrangea arborescens; wild hydrangea (deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States)

hortensia; Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis (deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue)

fall-blooming hydrangea; Hydrangea paniculata (deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters)

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea petiolaris (deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads)

carpenteria; Carpenteria californica (California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers)

Decumaria barbara; Decumaria barbata; decumary (woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters)

deutzia (any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters)

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

genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)

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