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CESTRUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cestrum mean? 

CESTRUM (noun)
  The noun CESTRUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of fragrant tropical American shrubsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CESTRUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of fragrant tropical American shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cestrum; genus Cestrum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Cestrum"):

Cestrum diurnum; day jessamine (West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped white flowers that are fragrant by day)

Cestrum nocturnum; night jasmine; night jessamine (West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by night)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)


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