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CELOSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Celosia mean?
• CELOSIA (noun)
The noun CELOSIA has 1 sense:
1. annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
Familiarity information: CELOSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Celosia; genus Celosia
Hypernyms ("Celosia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Celosia"):
Celosia argentea; red fox (weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers)
Holonyms ("Celosia" is a member of...):
amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)
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