GENUS AESCHYNANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Aeschynanthus mean? 

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

1. large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AESCHYNANTHUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Aeschynanthus"):

aeschynanthus (a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex)

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

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)