ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Astroloma humifusum mean? 

• ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM (noun)
  The noun ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM has 1 sense:

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

  Familiarity information: ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum

Hypernyms ("Astroloma humifusum" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Astroloma humifusum" is a member of...):

Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)