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GENUS HERMANNIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hermannia mean?
• GENUS HERMANNIA (noun)
The noun GENUS HERMANNIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers
Familiarity information: GENUS HERMANNIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hermannia; Hermannia
Hypernyms ("genus Hermannia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hermannia"):
Hermannia verticillata; honey bell; honeybells; Mahernia verticillata (African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs)
Holonyms ("genus Hermannia" is a member of...):
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)
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