GENUS NELUMBO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Nelumbo mean? 

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

1. sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS NELUMBO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nelumbo"):

American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin (water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds)

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

Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)