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GENUS MALOPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Malope mean?
• GENUS MALOPE (noun)
The noun GENUS MALOPE has 1 sense:
1. small genus of chiefly European herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS MALOPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of chiefly European herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Malope" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Malope"):
malope; Malope trifida (western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts)
Holonyms ("genus Malope" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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