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STYPHELIA HUMIFUSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Styphelia humifusum mean? 

STYPHELIA HUMIFUSUM (noun)
  The noun STYPHELIA HUMIFUSUM has 1 sense:

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Stypheliaplay

  Familiarity information: STYPHELIA HUMIFUSUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STYPHELIA HUMIFUSUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum

Hypernyms ("Styphelia humifusum" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Styphelia humifusum" is a member of...):

Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)


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