GENUS HIBBERTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hibbertia mean? 

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

1. evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HIBBERTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hibbertia; Hibbertia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Hibbertia"):

guinea flower; guinea gold vine (any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers)

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

Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae (chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia)