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GENUS PYRULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pyrularia mean? 

GENUS PYRULARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PYRULARIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS PYRULARIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pyrularia"):

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)

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

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)


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