GENUS DRACULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Dracula mean? 

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

1. comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DRACULA (noun)

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Meaning:

Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dracula; genus Dracula

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

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

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

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)