GENUS CURCUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Curcuma mean? 

• GENUS CURCUMA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CURCUMA has 1 sense:

1. tropical Asiatic perennial herbs

  Familiarity information: GENUS CURCUMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CURCUMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Curcuma; genus Curcuma

Hypernyms ("genus Curcuma" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Curcuma"):

Curcuma domestica; Curcuma longa; turmeric (widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye)

Holonyms ("genus Curcuma" is a member of...):

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)