GENUS PINCKNEYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pinckneya mean? 

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

1. small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PINCKNEYA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Pinckneya"):

bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens (ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)