GENUS CANELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Canella mean? 

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

1. one species

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CANELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Canella"):

Canella-alba; Canella winterana; white cinnamon tree; wild cinnamon (large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes)

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

canella family; Canellaceae; family Canellaceae (one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies)