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GENUS LEMAIREOCEREUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lemaireocereus mean?
• GENUS LEMAIREOCEREUS (noun)
The noun GENUS LEMAIREOCEREUS has 1 sense:
1. tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
Familiarity information: GENUS LEMAIREOCEREUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus
Hypernyms ("genus Lemaireocereus" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Lemaireocereus"):
chichipe; Lemaireocereus chichipe (tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit)
Holonyms ("genus Lemaireocereus" is a member of...):
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)
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