genus gardenia

English Thesaurus

1. large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	asterid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	gardenia,
definition	:	any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae,
definition	:	widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (noun.plant)