GENUS IMPATIENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Impatiens mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent; cosmopolitan except for South America, Australia, and New Zealand

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS IMPATIENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent; cosmopolitan except for South America, Australia, and New Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Impatiens"):

celandine; Impatiens capensis; jewelweed; lady's earrings; orange balsam; touch-me-not (North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil)

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

balsam family; Balsaminaceae; family Balsaminaceae (distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers)