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noun
Any plant of the genus Hamelia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia, coloradillo, Hamelia patens, Hamelia erecta
History
From the genus name.
