GENUS ABUTILON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Abutilon mean? 

• GENUS ABUTILON (noun)
  The noun GENUS ABUTILON has 1 sense:

1. herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow

  Familiarity information: GENUS ABUTILON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ABUTILON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abutilon; genus Abutilon

Hypernyms ("genus Abutilon" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Abutilon"):

flowering maple (an ornamental plant of the genus Abutilon having leaves that resemble maple leaves)

Abutilon theophrasti; butter-print; China jute; Indian mallow; velvet-leaf; velvetleaf; velvetweed (tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States)

Holonyms ("genus Abutilon" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)