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GENUS LAGENARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lagenaria mean? 

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

1. bottle gourdsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS LAGENARIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottle gourds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria

Hypernyms ("genus Lagenaria" 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 Lagenaria"):

bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria (Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits)

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

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))


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