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GENUS CALYSTEGIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calystegia mean?
• GENUS CALYSTEGIA (noun)
The noun GENUS CALYSTEGIA has 1 sense:
1. climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed
Familiarity information: GENUS CALYSTEGIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Calystegia; genus Calystegia
Hypernyms ("genus Calystegia" 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 Calystegia"):
Calystegia sepium; Convolvulus sepium; hedge bindweed; wild morning-glory (common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus)
Holonyms ("genus Calystegia" is a member of...):
Convolvulaceae; family Convolvulaceae; morning-glory family (morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit)
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