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GENUS GARDENIA

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

1. large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees

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

• GENUS GARDENIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees

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Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gardenia"):

gardenia (any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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