GENUS FORESTIERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Forestiera mean? 

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

1. genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS FORESTIERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Forestiera" 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 "genus Forestiera"):

forestiera (any plant of the genus Forestiera)

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

family Oleaceae; Oleaceae; olive family (trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac)