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GENUS BELAMCANDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Belamcanda mean?
• GENUS BELAMCANDA (noun)
The noun GENUS BELAMCANDA has 1 sense:
1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS BELAMCANDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda
Hypernyms ("genus Belamcanda" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "genus Belamcanda"):
Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily (garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry)
Holonyms ("genus Belamcanda" is a member of...):
family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)
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