genus clethra

English Thesaurus

1. type and sole genus of the Clethraceae; deciduous shrubs or small trees: white alder, summer-sweet (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	clethraceae, family clethraceae, white-alder family,
definition	:	coextensive with the genus Clethra (noun.plant)