ALLAMANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allamanda mean? 

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

1. a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLAMANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allamanda"):

Allamanda cathartica; common allamanda; golden trumpet (vigorous evergreen climbing plant of South America having glossy leathery foliage and golden yellow flowers)

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

genus Allamanda (genus of tropical American woody vines)

 Context examples 

Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)