HAEMANTHUS COCCINEUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haemanthus coccineus mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMANTHUS COCCINEUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus

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

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

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

genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)