GENUS CALYSTEGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calystegia mean? 

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

1. climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALYSTEGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calystegia; genus Calystegia

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Calystegia"):

Calystegia sepium; Convolvulus sepium; hedge bindweed; wild morning-glory (common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus)

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

Convolvulaceae; family Convolvulaceae; morning-glory family (morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit)