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CHINESE HIBISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinese hibiscus mean? 

CHINESE HIBISCUS (noun)
  The noun CHINESE HIBISCUS has 1 sense:

1. large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CHINESE HIBISCUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHINESE HIBISCUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

China rose; Chinese hibiscus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; Rose of China; shoe black; shoeblack plant

Hypernyms ("Chinese hibiscus" is a kind of...):

hibiscus (any plant of the genus Hibiscus)


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