GENUS HYDRANGEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hydrangea mean? 

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

1. type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae

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

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• GENUS HYDRANGEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hydrangea"):

hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea anomala (deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads)

Hydrangea arborescens; wild hydrangea (deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States)

hortensia; Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis (deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue)

fall-blooming hydrangea; Hydrangea paniculata (deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters)

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea petiolaris (deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads)

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

family Hydrangeaceae; hydrangea family; Hydrangeaceae (sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae)