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GENUS MELASTOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Melastoma mean?
• GENUS MELASTOMA (noun)
The noun GENUS MELASTOMA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries
Familiarity information: GENUS MELASTOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Melastoma; Melastoma
Hypernyms ("genus Melastoma" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Holonyms ("genus Melastoma" is a member of...):
family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; meadow-beauty family; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae (a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals)
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