GENUS GESNERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gesneria mean? 

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

1. large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GESNERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Gesneria"):

gesneria (any plant of the genus Gesneria)

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

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)