GENUS CARDIOSPERMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cardiospermum mean? 

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

1. tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CARDIOSPERMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cardiospermum; genus Cardiospermum

Hypernyms ("genus Cardiospermum" 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 Cardiospermum"):

soapberry vine (tendril-climbing vine)

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

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)