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BRYANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bryanthus mean? 

BRYANTHUS (noun)
  The noun BRYANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BRYANTHUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

genus Bryanthus (a genus allied to and once included in genus Phyllodoce)


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