GENUS CALCEOLARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calceolaria mean? 

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

1. large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALCEOLARIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Calceolaria"):

calceolaria; slipperwort (any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip)

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

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)