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GENUS HELWINGIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Helwingia mean?
• GENUS HELWINGIA (noun)
The noun GENUS HELWINGIA has 1 sense:
1. deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan
Familiarity information: GENUS HELWINGIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Helwingia; Helwingia
Hypernyms ("genus Helwingia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Holonyms ("genus Helwingia" 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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