GENUS DOMBEYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Dombeya mean? 

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

1. genus of African shrubs or small trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DOMBEYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of African shrubs or small trees

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Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Dombeya"):

dombeya (any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves)

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

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)