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POLIANTHES TUBEROSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polianthes tuberosa mean? 

POLIANTHES TUBEROSA (noun)
  The noun POLIANTHES TUBEROSA has 1 sense:

1. a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowersplay

  Familiarity information: POLIANTHES TUBEROSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLIANTHES TUBEROSA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Polianthes tuberosa; tuberose

Hypernyms ("Polianthes tuberosa" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("Polianthes tuberosa" is a member of...):

genus Polianthes; Polianthes (genus of perennial tuberous herbs having lily-like flowers; Mexico; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae)


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