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GENUS COROKIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Corokia mean?
• GENUS COROKIA (noun)
The noun GENUS COROKIA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand
Familiarity information: GENUS COROKIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Corokia; genus Corokia
Hypernyms ("genus Corokia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Holonyms ("genus Corokia" is a member of...):
Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)
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