GENUS BUCKLEYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Buckleya mean? 

• GENUS BUCKLEYA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BUCKLEYA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs

  Familiarity information: GENUS BUCKLEYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BUCKLEYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Buckleya" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Buckleya"):

buckleya; Buckleya distichophylla (parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits)

Holonyms ("genus Buckleya" is a member of...):

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)