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BELAMCANDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Belamcanda mean?
• BELAMCANDA (noun)
The noun BELAMCANDA has 1 sense:
1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae
Familiarity information: BELAMCANDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda
Hypernyms ("Belamcanda" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "Belamcanda"):
Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily (garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry)
Holonyms ("Belamcanda" is a member of...):
family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)
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