POMADERRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pomaderris mean? 

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

1. a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POMADERRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Australasian shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris

Hypernyms ("Pomaderris" 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 "Pomaderris"):

hazel; hazel tree; Pomaderris apetala (Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts)

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

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)