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GENUS ACROCLINIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Acroclinium mean? 

GENUS ACROCLINIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACROCLINIUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and South Africa: everlasting flower; most species usually placed in genus Helipterumplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS ACROCLINIUM used as a noun is very rare.


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GENUS ACROCLINIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and South Africa: everlasting flower; most species usually placed in genus Helipterum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acroclinium; genus Acroclinium

Hypernyms ("genus Acroclinium" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Acroclinium"):

Acroclinium roseum; pink-and-white everlasting; pink paper daisy (flower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers; grown for drying)


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