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BIGNONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bignonia mean?
• BIGNONIA (noun)
The noun BIGNONIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BIGNONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: cross vine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Bignonia; genus Bignonia
Hypernyms ("Bignonia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Bignonia"):
Bignonia capreolata; cross vine; quarter-vine; quartervine; trumpet flower (woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section)
Holonyms ("Bignonia" is a member of...):
Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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