NUYTSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nuytsia mean? 

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

1. one species

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUYTSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nuytsia; Nuytsia

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Nuytsia"):

Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda (a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses)

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

family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)