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SCHLUMBERGERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Schlumbergera mean?
• SCHLUMBERGERA (noun)
The noun SCHLUMBERGERA has 1 sense:
1. South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
Familiarity information: SCHLUMBERGERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera
Hypernyms ("Schlumbergera" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Schlumbergera"):
Christmas cactus; Schlumbergera baridgesii; Schlumbergera buckleyi (epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter)
Holonyms ("Schlumbergera" is a member of...):
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)
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