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GENUS HOHERIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hoheria mean?
• GENUS HOHERIA (noun)
The noun GENUS HOHERIA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand: lacebarks
Familiarity information: GENUS HOHERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand: lacebarks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hoheria; Hoheria
Hypernyms ("genus Hoheria" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hoheria"):
Hoheria populnea; houhere; lacebark; ribbonwood (small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage)
Holonyms ("genus Hoheria" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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