GENUS GEOFFROEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Geoffroea mean? 

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

1. small genus of shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GEOFFROEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Geoffroea; Geoffroea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Geoffroea"):

chanal; chanar; Geoffroea decorticans (thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)