GENUS COMANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Comandra mean? 

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

1. small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COMANDRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Comandra; genus Comandra

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Comandra"):

bastard toadflax; Comandra pallida (woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers)

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

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)