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GENUS FUCHSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Fuchsia mean?
• GENUS FUCHSIA (noun)
The noun GENUS FUCHSIA has 1 sense:
1. large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers
Familiarity information: GENUS FUCHSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Fuchsia" 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 Fuchsia"):
fuchsia (any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti)
Holonyms ("genus Fuchsia" is a member of...):
evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)
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