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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 Helipterum
Familiarity information: GENUS ACROCLINIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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