COLUMNEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does columnea mean? 

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

1. tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUMNEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

genus Columnea (genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas)