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RUBUS

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Meaning:

Large genus of brambles bearing berries

Synonyms:

genus Rubus; Rubus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Rubus"):

bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)

dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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