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GENUS BRUNFELSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Brunfelsia mean? 

GENUS BRUNFELSIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BRUNFELSIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruitsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS BRUNFELSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brunfelsia; genus Brunfelsia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Brunfelsia"):

Brunfelsia americana; lady-of-the-night (West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Brunfelsia" 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)


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