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GENUS BRASENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Brasenia mean?
• GENUS BRASENIA (noun)
The noun GENUS BRASENIA has 1 sense:
1. alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS BRASENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brasenia; genus Brasenia
Hypernyms ("genus Brasenia" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Brasenia"):
Brasenia schreberi; water-shield; water-target (aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums)
Holonyms ("genus Brasenia" is a member of...):
Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)
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