CHILOPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chilopsis mean? 

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

1. one species: desert willow

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILOPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: desert willow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chilopsis; genus Chilopsis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Chilopsis"):

Chilopsis linearis; desert willow (evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers and long seed pods)

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

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)