CELOSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Celosia mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELOSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Celosia; genus Celosia

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Celosia"):

Celosia argentea; red fox (weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers)

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

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)