GENUS GARDENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gardenia mean? 

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

1. large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GARDENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Gardenia"):

gardenia (any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)