GENUS CALAMUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calamus mean? 

• GENUS CALAMUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CALAMUS has 2 senses:

1. distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest

2. a genus of Sparidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS CALAMUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALAMUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Calamus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Calamus"):

calamus (any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes)

Holonyms ("genus Calamus" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A genus of Sparidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Calamus; genus Calamus

Hypernyms ("genus Calamus" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Calamus"):

Calamus penna; sheepshead porgy (from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil)

Holonyms ("genus Calamus" is a member of...):

family Sparidae; Sparidae (porgies; scups)