GENUS STRELITZIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Strelitzia mean? 

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

1. small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS STRELITZIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Strelitzia; Strelitzia

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Strelitzia"):

bird of paradise; Strelitzia reginae (ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird)

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

family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae (woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae)