KENNEDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kennedia mean? 

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

1. genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENNEDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Kennedia; genus Kennedya; Kennedia; Kennedya

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Kennedia"):

coral pea (any of various Australian climbing plants of the genus Kennedia having scarlet flowers)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)