GENUS BENZOIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Benzoin mean? 

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

1. used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BENZOIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Benzoin; genus Benzoin

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

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

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)