BULBOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulbous plant mean? 

• BULBOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun BULBOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plant growing from a bulb

  Familiarity information: BULBOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULBOUS PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant growing from a bulb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bulbous plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

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

iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)

amaryllis (bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers)

blood lily (any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia)

narcissus (bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters)

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

checkered lily; fritillary (any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers)

autumn crocus; Colchicum autumnale; meadow saffron; naked lady (bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers; native to western and central Europe)

star-of-Bethlehem (any of several perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum native to the Mediterranean and having star-shaped flowers)