GENUS TABERNAEMONTANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tabernaemontana mean? 

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

1. evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TABERNAEMONTANA (noun)

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Meaning:

Evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tabernaemontana; Tabernaemontana

Hypernyms ("genus Tabernaemontana" 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 Tabernaemontana"):

Adam's apple; coffee rose; crape jasmine; crepe gardenia; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; Nero's crown; pinwheel flower; Tabernaemontana divaricate (tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)