GENUS STREPTOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Streptocarpus mean? 

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

1. large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS STREPTOCARPUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Streptocarpus"):

streptocarpus (any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses)

Cape primrose (any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple flowers)

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

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)