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GENUS ACHIMENES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Achimenes mean?
• GENUS ACHIMENES (noun)
The noun GENUS ACHIMENES has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical perennial American herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS ACHIMENES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical perennial American herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Achimenes" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Achimenes"):
achimenes; hot water plant (any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias)
Holonyms ("genus Achimenes" is a member of...):
family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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