GENUS BROWALLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Browallia mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical South American annuals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BROWALLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of tropical South American annuals

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Browallia"):

browallia; bush violet (any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)