LINDERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lindera mean? 

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

1. aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINDERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lindera; Lindera

Hypernyms ("Lindera" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Lindera"):

American spicebush; Benjamin bush; Benzoin odoriferum; Lindera benzoin; spice bush; spicebush (deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries)

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

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)