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GELSEMIUM (gelsemia)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gelsemium mean?
• GELSEMIUM (noun)
The noun GELSEMIUM has 1 sense:
1. evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
Familiarity information: GELSEMIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gelsemium; genus Gelsemium
Hypernyms ("Gelsemium" 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 "Gelsemium"):
Carolina jasmine; evening trumpet flower; Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jasmine; yellow jessamine (poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("Gelsemium" is a member of...):
family Loganiaceae; Loganiaceae (a dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales)
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