GENUS CLIANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Clianthus mean? 

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

1. genus of semi-prostrate Australasian shrubs or vines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CLIANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of semi-prostrate Australasian shrubs or vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Clianthus"):

clianthus; glory pea (any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)