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GENUS FUCHSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Fuchsia mean? 

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

1. large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS FUCHSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Fuchsia" 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 Fuchsia"):

fuchsia (any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti)

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

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)


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