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GENUS ABELIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Abelia mean?
• GENUS ABELIA (noun)
The noun GENUS ABELIA has 1 sense:
1. chiefly east Asian shrubs
Familiarity information: GENUS ABELIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly east Asian shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Abelia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Abelia"):
abelia (any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico)
Holonyms ("genus Abelia" is a member of...):
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)
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