CETONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cetonia mean? 

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

1. a genus of Cetoniidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CETONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Cetoniidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cetonia; genus Cetonia

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Cetonia"):

Cetonia aurata; rose beetle; rose chafer (a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses)

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

Cetoniidae; subfamily Cetoniidae (considered a separate family in some classification systems)