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SORBUS

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Meaning:

A genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leaves

Synonyms:

genus Sorbus; Sorbus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Sorbus"):

mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)

Holonyms ("Sorbus" 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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