GENUS PLUMERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Plumeria mean? 

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

1. deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PLUMERIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Plumeria; Plumeria; Plumiera

Hypernyms ("genus Plumeria" 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 Plumeria"):

frangipani; frangipanni (any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)