HOLARRHENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holarrhena mean? 

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

1. genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLARRHENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Holarrhena; Holarrhena

Hypernyms ("Holarrhena" 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 "Holarrhena"):

conessi; Holarrhena antidysenterica; Holarrhena pubescens; ivory tree; kurchee; kurchi (tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea)

Holonyms ("Holarrhena" 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)