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GENUS DROSERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Drosera mean? 

GENUS DROSERA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DROSERA has 1 sense:

1. the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plantsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS DROSERA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Drosera; genus Drosera

Hypernyms ("genus Drosera" 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 "genus Drosera"):

daily dew; sundew; sundew plant (any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution)

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

Droseraceae; family Droseraceae; sundew family (a family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs)


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