GENUS HAMELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hamelia mean? 

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

1. evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HAMELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Hamelia"):

hamelia (any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)