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HYBANTHUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hybanthus mean?
• HYBANTHUS (noun)
The noun HYBANTHUS has 1 sense:
1. a genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions
Familiarity information: HYBANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hybanthus; Hybanthus
Hypernyms ("Hybanthus" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Holonyms ("Hybanthus" is a member of...):
family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family (a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus)
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