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AMELANCHIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Amelanchier mean?
• AMELANCHIER (noun)
The noun AMELANCHIER has 1 sense:
1. North American deciduous trees or shrubs
Familiarity information: AMELANCHIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American deciduous trees or shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Amelanchier; genus Amelanchier
Hypernyms ("Amelanchier" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Amelanchier"):
Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush (any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit)
Holonyms ("Amelanchier" 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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