ADENIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adenium mean? 

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

1. one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADENIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adenium; genus Adenium

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Adenium"):

Adenium multiflorum; Adenium obesum; desert rose; impala lily; kudu lily; mock azalia (South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)