GENUS FEIJOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Feijoa mean? 

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

1. small South American shrubs or trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS FEIJOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small South American shrubs or trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Feijoa" 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 Feijoa"):

feijoa; feijoa bush (South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit)

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

family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)