HELWINGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Helwingia mean? 

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

1. deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELWINGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Helwingia; Helwingia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

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

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)