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BUCKLEYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buckleya mean?
• BUCKLEYA (noun)
The noun BUCKLEYA has 1 sense:
1. parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits
Familiarity information: BUCKLEYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
buckleya; Buckleya distichophylla
Hypernyms ("buckleya" is a kind of...):
parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)
Holonyms ("buckleya" is a member of...):
genus Buckleya (small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs)
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