AMELANCHIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amelanchier mean? 

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

1. North American deciduous trees or shrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMELANCHIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American deciduous trees or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amelanchier; genus Amelanchier

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Amelanchier"):

Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush (any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)