HALESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Halesia mean? 

• HALESIA (noun)
  The noun HALESIA has 1 sense:

1. deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America

  Familiarity information: HALESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Halesia; Halesia

Hypernyms ("Halesia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Halesia"):

silver bell (any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers)

Holonyms ("Halesia" is a member of...):

family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family (a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales)