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GENUS SOLANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Solandra mean? 

GENUS SOLANDRA (noun)
  The noun GENUS SOLANDRA has 1 sense:

1. shrubby climbers of tropical Americaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SOLANDRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby climbers of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Solandra; Solandra

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Solandra"):

chalice vine; cupflower; Solandra guttata; trumpet flower (Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)


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