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GENUS PSYCHOTRIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Psychotria mean?
• GENUS PSYCHOTRIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PSYCHOTRIA has 1 sense:
1. tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees
Familiarity information: GENUS PSYCHOTRIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Psychotria; Psychotria
Hypernyms ("genus Psychotria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Psychotria"):
lemon-wood; lemon-wood tree; lemonwood; lemonwood tree; Psychotria capensis (South African evergreen having hard tough wood)
Holonyms ("genus Psychotria" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
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