GENUS CARYOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Caryota mean? 

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

1. fishtail palms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CARYOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fishtail palms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Caryota; genus Caryota

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Caryota"):

fishtail palm (attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage)

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

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)