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EUSTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eustoma mean? 

EUSTOMA (noun)
  The noun EUSTOMA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South Americaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EUSTOMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eustoma; genus Eustoma

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Eustoma"):

bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian (one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)


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