SCHEFFLERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Schefflera mean? 

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

1. large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHEFFLERA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Schefflera; Schefflera

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Schefflera"):

Brassaia actinophylla; Schefflera actinophylla; umbrella tree (erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves)

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

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)