SILVER BELL

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Meaning:

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("silver bell" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silver bell"):

Halesia carolina; Halesia tetraptera; opossum wood; silver-bell tree; silverbell tree; snowdrop tree (medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas)

Holonyms ("silver bell" is a member of...):

genus Halesia; Halesia (deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America)

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