EMBOTHRIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Embothrium mean? 

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

1. small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBOTHRIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Embothrium; genus Embothrium

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Embothrium"):

Chilean firebush; Chilean flameflower; Embothrium coccineum (grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)