GENUS GLOXINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gloxinia mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GLOXINIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Gloxinia"):

Canterbury bell; Gloxinia perennis (herb of Colombia to Peru having pale purple flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Gloxinia" 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)