LEMAIREOCEREUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lemaireocereus mean? 

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

1. tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEMAIREOCEREUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Lemaireocereus"):

chichipe; Lemaireocereus chichipe (tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)