CRUEL PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cruel plant mean? 

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

1. robust twining shrub having racemes of fragrant white or pink flowers with flat spreading terminal petals that trap nocturnal moths and hold them until dawn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUEL PLANT (noun)

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Meaning:

Robust twining shrub having racemes of fragrant white or pink flowers with flat spreading terminal petals that trap nocturnal moths and hold them until dawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Araujia sericofera; cruel plant

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("cruel plant" is a member of...):

Araujia; genus Araujia (small genus of South American evergreen vines)