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SCHIZOPHRAGMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Schizophragma mean? 

SCHIZOPHRAGMA (noun)
  The noun SCHIZOPHRAGMA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of deciduous climbing and creeping shrubs with white flowers in flat clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SCHIZOPHRAGMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of deciduous climbing and creeping shrubs with white flowers in flat clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Schizophragma; Schizophragma

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Schizophragma"):

climbing hydrangea; Schizophragma hydrangeoides (climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan)

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

family Hydrangeaceae; hydrangea family; Hydrangeaceae (sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae)


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