HETEROMELES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heteromeles mean? 

• HETEROMELES (noun)
  The noun HETEROMELES has 1 sense:

1. one species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia

  Familiarity information: HETEROMELES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROMELES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: toyon; in some classifications included in genus Photinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Heteromeles; Heteromeles

Hypernyms ("Heteromeles" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Heteromeles"):

Christmas berry; Christmasberry; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Photinia arbutifolia; tollon; toyon (ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia)

Holonyms ("Heteromeles" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)