NICANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nicandra mean? 

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

1. sturdy annual of Peru

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICANDRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sturdy annual of Peru

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nicandra; Nicandra

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Nicandra"):

apple of Peru; Nicandra physaloides; shoo fly (coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)