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ABUTILON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Abutilon mean?
• ABUTILON (noun)
The noun ABUTILON has 1 sense:
1. herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow
Familiarity information: ABUTILON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Abutilon; genus Abutilon
Hypernyms ("Abutilon" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Abutilon"):
flowering maple (an ornamental plant of the genus Abutilon having leaves that resemble maple leaves)
Abutilon theophrasti; butter-print; China jute; Indian mallow; velvet-leaf; velvetleaf; velvetweed (tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States)
Holonyms ("Abutilon" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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