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SLEEPING HIBISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleeping hibiscus mean? 

SLEEPING HIBISCUS (noun)
  The noun SLEEPING HIBISCUS has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowersplay

  Familiarity information: SLEEPING HIBISCUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLEEPING HIBISCUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow

Hypernyms ("sleeping hibiscus" is a kind of...):

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Holonyms ("sleeping hibiscus" is a member of...):

genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus (small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows)


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