GENUS CONOSPERMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Conospermum mean? 

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

1. Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CONOSPERMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Conospermum; genus Conospermum

Hypernyms ("genus Conospermum" 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 Conospermum"):

smoke bush (any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)