GENUS GRISELINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Griselinia mean? 

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

1. evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GRISELINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Griselinia; Griselinia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Griselinia"):

Griselinia lucida; puka (South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers)

Griselinia littoralis; kapuka (small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental)

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

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)