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GENUS FABIANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Fabiana mean?
• GENUS FABIANA (noun)
The noun GENUS FABIANA has 1 sense:
1. genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
Familiarity information: GENUS FABIANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Fabiana; genus Fabiana
Hypernyms ("genus Fabiana" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Fabiana"):
Fabiana imbricata; pichi (Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers; leaves yield a tonic and diuretic)
Holonyms ("genus Fabiana" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
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