GENUS LITHOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lithops mean? 

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

1. genus of stemless South African succulents

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LITHOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of stemless South African succulents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lithops"):

flowering stone; lithops; living stone; stone-face; stone life face; stone plant; stoneface (any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones)

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

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)