HAEMANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haemanthus mean? 

• HAEMANTHUS (noun)
  The noun HAEMANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies

  Familiarity information: HAEMANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus

Hypernyms ("Haemanthus" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "Haemanthus"):

blood lily (any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia)

Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus (spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa)

Holonyms ("Haemanthus" is a member of...):

Amaryllidaceae; amaryllis family; family Amaryllidaceae (snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae)