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FORESTIERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forestiera mean?
• FORESTIERA (noun)
The noun FORESTIERA has 1 sense:
1. any plant of the genus Forestiera
Familiarity information: FORESTIERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Forestiera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("forestiera" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forestiera"):
desert olive; Forestiera neomexicana; tanglebush (spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits)
Holonyms ("forestiera" is a member of...):
genus Forestiera (genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees)
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