GENUS VINCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vinca mean? 

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

1. periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VINCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vinca; Vinca

Hypernyms ("genus Vinca" 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 Vinca"):

periwinkle (chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Vinca" 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)