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CARDIOSPERMUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cardiospermum mean?
• CARDIOSPERMUM (noun)
The noun CARDIOSPERMUM has 1 sense:
1. tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot
Familiarity information: CARDIOSPERMUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cardiospermum; genus Cardiospermum
Hypernyms ("Cardiospermum" 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 "Cardiospermum"):
soapberry vine (tendril-climbing vine)
Holonyms ("Cardiospermum" is a member of...):
family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)
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