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GENUS LAGENARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lagenaria mean?
• GENUS LAGENARIA (noun)
The noun GENUS LAGENARIA has 1 sense:
1. bottle gourds
Familiarity information: GENUS LAGENARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bottle gourds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria
Hypernyms ("genus Lagenaria" 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 Lagenaria"):
bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria (Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits)
Holonyms ("genus Lagenaria" is a member of...):
Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))
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