BEGONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does begonia mean? 

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

1. any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEGONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "begonia"):

fibrous-rooted begonia (any of numerous begonias having fibrous rather than tuberous or rhizomatous roots)

tuberous begonia (any of numerous begonias having large tuberous roots)

rhizomatous begonia (any of numerous begonias having prominent shaggy creeping stems or rhizomes)

Begonia cheimantha; blooming-fool begonia; Christmas begonia (hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers)

angel-wing begonia; Begonia cocchinea (South American fibrous-rooted begonias having prominent basal leaf lobes suggesting angels' wings and racemes of coral-red flowers)

Begonia dregei; grape-leaf begonia; maple-leaf begonia (tuberous or semi-tuberous South African begonia having shallowly lobed ovate leaves and small white flowers)

beefsteak begonia; Begonia erythrophylla; Begonia feastii; kidney begonia (rhizomatous begonia with roundish fleshy leaves reddish colored beneath)

Begonia heracleifolia; star-leaf begonia; star begonia (rhizomatous begonia having leaves with pointed lobes suggestive of stars and pink flowers)

beefsteak geranium; Begonia rex; king begonia; painted-leaf begonia; rex begonia (any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers)

Begonia semperflorens; wax begonia (hybrid fibrous-rooted begonia having broad-ovate green to bronze-red leaves and small clusters of white or pink or red flowers; widely used as a bedding plant)

Begonia socotrana; Socotra begonia (semi-tuberous begonia having peltate leaves and rose-pink flowers; Yemen)

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

genus Begonia (large genus of tropical succulent plants widely cultivated)

 Context examples 

There was a red begonia just the same color as one that is kept in a pot in the window of a certain villa in Streatham—but I am drifting into private reminiscence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was pleasant to see the convolvulus, the passion-flower, and the begonia, all reminding me of home, here among these inhospitable rocks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)