PLEIOSPILOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pleiospilos mean? 

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

1. perennial succulents of South Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEIOSPILOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial succulents of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Pleiospilos"):

living granite; living rock; stone mimicry plant (highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa)

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

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)