GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cercidiphyllum mean? 

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

1. one species: katsura tree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: katsura tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cercidiphyllum; genus Cercidiphyllum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Cercidiphyllum"):

Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree (rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn)

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

Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)