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GENUS COMPTONIA

• GENUS COMPTONIA (noun)
The noun GENUS COMPTONIA has 1 sense:

1. one species: sweet fern

Familiarity information: GENUS COMPTONIA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS COMPTONIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

One species: sweet fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Comptonia; genus Comptonia

Hypernyms ("genus Comptonia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Comptonia"):

Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Comptonia" is a member of...):

family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)

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