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MIMOSA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice

Synonyms:

buck's fizz; mimosa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mimosa" 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 "mimosa"):

Mimosa sensitiva; sensitive plant (semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch)

action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not (prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled)

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

genus Mimosa (genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers

Synonyms:

Acacia dealbata; mimosa; silver wattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

wattle (any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle)

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

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

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