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EMILIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Emilia mean?
• EMILIA (noun)
The noun EMILIA has 1 sense:
1. tropical African herbs
Familiarity information: EMILIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical African herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Emilia; genus Emilia
Hypernyms ("Emilia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Emilia"):
Cacalia javanica; Cacalia lutea; Emilia coccinea; Emilia flammea; Emilia javanica; tassel flower (tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia)
Emilia sagitta; tassel flower (tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers)
Holonyms ("Emilia" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
Context examples
“He is my husband, Gennaro Lucca. I am Emilia Lucca, and we are both from New York. Where is Gennaro? He called me this moment from this window, and I ran with all my speed.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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