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PINCKNEYA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America

Synonyms:

genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Pinckneya"):

bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens (ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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