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GENUS MANIHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Manihot mean? 

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

1. genus of economically important tropical plants: cassavaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MANIHOT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Manihot; Manihot

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Manihot"):

casava; cassava (any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch)

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

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)


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