GENUS CLEOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cleome mean? 

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

1. tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CLEOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cleome; genus Cleome

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Cleome"):

cleome; spiderflower (any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers)

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

caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae (a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia)