ALSOBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alsobia mean? 

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

1. tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALSOBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alsobia; genus Alsobia

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Alsobia"):

Alsobia dianthiflora; Episcia dianthiflora; lace-flower vine (low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Episcia)

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

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)