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EUSTOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Eustoma mean?
• EUSTOMA (noun)
The noun EUSTOMA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America
Familiarity information: EUSTOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Eustoma; genus Eustoma
Hypernyms ("Eustoma" 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 "Eustoma"):
bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian (one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas)
Holonyms ("Eustoma" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)
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