GENUS MALVAVISCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Malvaviscus mean? 

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

1. small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows

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

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• GENUS MALVAVISCUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Malvaviscus"):

sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow (any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers)

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

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)