STEPHANOTIS

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Meaning:

Any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

Madagascar jasmine; Stephanotis floribunda; waxflower (twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions)

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

genus Stephanotis (genus of Old World tropical woody vines)

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