GENUS PRIMULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Primula mean? 

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

1. very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PRIMULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Primula"):

primrose; primula (any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads)

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

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)