CALLIANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calliandra mean? 

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

1. any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLIANDRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

genus Calliandra (genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa)