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GENUS HELIAMPHORA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Heliamphora mean?
• GENUS HELIAMPHORA (noun)
The noun GENUS HELIAMPHORA has 1 sense:
1. genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America
Familiarity information: GENUS HELIAMPHORA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Heliamphora; Heliamphora
Hypernyms ("genus Heliamphora" 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 Heliamphora"):
sun pitcher (any of several herbs of Guiana highlands having racemes of nodding white or pink flowers; trap and digest insects in pitcher-shaped leaves with spoon-shaped caps)
Holonyms ("genus Heliamphora" is a member of...):
family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae (insectivorous plants)
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