ARDISIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ardisia mean? 

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

1. tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARDISIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ardisia; genus Ardisia

Hypernyms ("Ardisia" 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 "Ardisia"):

Ardisia crenata; coralberry; spiceberry (shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India)

Ardisia escallonoides; Ardisia paniculata; marlberry (tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries)

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

family Myrsinaceae; Myrsinaceae; myrsine family (family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida)