ABELMOSCHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Abelmoschus mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABELMOSCHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical coarse herbs having large lobed leaves and often yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abelmoschus; genus Abelmoschus

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Abelmoschus"):

Abelmoschus esculentus; gumbo; Hibiscus esculentus; lady's-finger; okra; okra plant (tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus)

Abelmoschus moschatus; abelmosk; Hibiscus moschatus; musk mallow (bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus)

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

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of Abelmoschus moschatus.

(Ambrette Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)