GENUS HELIOPHILA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Heliophila mean? 

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

1. genus of South African flowering herbs and subshrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HELIOPHILA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of South African flowering herbs and subshrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Heliophila"):

heliophila (any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)