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GENUS ADENIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Adenium mean? 

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

1. one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ADENIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adenium; genus Adenium

Hypernyms ("genus Adenium" 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 "genus Adenium"):

Adenium multiflorum; Adenium obesum; desert rose; impala lily; kudu lily; mock azalia (South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)


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