GENUS ACTINIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Actinidia mean? 

• GENUS ACTINIDIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACTINIDIA has 1 sense:

1. small Asiatic woody vine bearing many-seeded fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ACTINIDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small Asiatic woody vine bearing many-seeded fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actinidia; genus Actinidia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Actinidia"):

Actinidia arguta; bower actinidia; tara vine (climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit)

Actinidia chinensis; Actinidia deliciosa; Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi vine (climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat)

Actinidia polygama; silver vine; silvervine (ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings)

Holonyms ("genus Actinidia" is a member of...):

Actinidiaceae; family Actinidiaceae (tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines)