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GRISELINIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Griselinia mean?
• GRISELINIA (noun)
The noun GRISELINIA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America
Familiarity information: GRISELINIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Griselinia; Griselinia
Hypernyms ("Griselinia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Griselinia"):
Griselinia lucida; puka (South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers)
Griselinia littoralis; kapuka (small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental)
Holonyms ("Griselinia" 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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