YELLOW OLEANDER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous

Synonyms:

Thevetia neriifolia; Thevetia peruviana; yellow oleander

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow oleander" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("yellow oleander" is a member of...):

genus Thevetia; Thevetia (genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers)

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