GENUS LOASA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Loasa mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LOASA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Loasa"):

loasa (any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers)

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

family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae (family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia)