GENUS STREPTOSOLEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Streptosolen mean? 

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

1. one species: marmalade bush

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS STREPTOSOLEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: marmalade bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Streptosolen; Streptosolen

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Streptosolen"):

fire-bush; fire bush; marmalade bush; Streptosolen jamesonii (evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant)

Holonyms ("genus Streptosolen" 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)