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POPULUS

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Meaning:

A genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars

Synonyms:

genus Populus; Populus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Populus"):

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

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

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)

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