AVICENNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Avicennia mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical shrubs or trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVICENNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of tropical shrubs or trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Avicennia; genus Avicennia

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Avicennia"):

Avicennia marina; black mangrove (a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground)

Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove (a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific)

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

family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)