HIBISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hibiscus mean? 

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

1. any plant of the genus Hibiscus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIBISCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Hibiscus

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Nouns denoting plants

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

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hibiscus"):

bimli; bimli hemp; Bombay hemp; deccan hemp; Hibiscus cannabinus; Indian hemp; kanaf; kenaf (valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation)

blue mahoe; Cuban bast; Hibiscus elatus; mahagua; mahoe; majagua (erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks)

Hibiscus heterophyllus; sorrel tree (Australian tree with acid foliage)

common rose mallow; Hibiscus moscheutos; rose mallow; swamp mallow; swamp rose mallow (showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers)

Confederate rose; Confederate rose mallow; cotton rose; Hibiscus mutabilis (Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States)

China rose; Chinese hibiscus; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; Rose of China; shoe black; shoeblack plant (large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers)

Hibiscus sabdariffa; Jamaica sorrel; red sorrel; roselle; rozelle; sorrel (East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber)

Hibiscus syriacus; rose of Sharon (Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually three-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe)

balibago; Hibiscus tiliaceus; mahagua; mahoe; majagua; purau (shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament)

black-eyed Susan; bladder ketmia; flower-of-an-hour; flowers-of-an-hour; Hibiscus trionum (annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America)

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

genus Hibiscus (large genus of tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees often grown as ornamentals for their profusion of large flowers in a variety of colors)