GENUS ALLAMANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Allamanda mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical American woody vines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ALLAMANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American woody vines

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Allamanda" 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 Allamanda"):

allamanda (a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes)

Holonyms ("genus Allamanda" 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)