GENUS IXIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ixia mean? 

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

1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS IXIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ixia; Ixia

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

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ixia"):

corn lily (any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored lily-like flowers; widely cultivated)

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

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)