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GENUS HETEROMELES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Heteromeles mean?
• GENUS HETEROMELES (noun)
The noun GENUS HETEROMELES has 1 sense:
1. one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia
Familiarity information: GENUS HETEROMELES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles
Hypernyms ("genus Heteromeles" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Heteromeles"):
Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon (ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia)
Holonyms ("genus Heteromeles" 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)
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