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PLUMERIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Plumeria mean?
• PLUMERIA (noun)
The noun PLUMERIA has 1 sense:
1. deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
Familiarity information: PLUMERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Plumeria; Plumeria; Plumiera
Hypernyms ("Plumeria" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Plumeria"):
frangipani; frangipanni (any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers)
Holonyms ("Plumeria" is a member of...):
Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)
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