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GENUS LEYCESTERIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Leycesteria mean?
• GENUS LEYCESTERIA (noun)
The noun GENUS LEYCESTERIA has 1 sense:
1. small species of shrubs of western Himalayas to China
Familiarity information: GENUS LEYCESTERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small species of shrubs of western Himalayas to China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Leycesteria; Leycesteria
Hypernyms ("genus Leycesteria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Leycesteria"):
Himalaya honeysuckle; Leycesteria formosa (shrub honeysuckle with drooping spikes of purplish flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Leycesteria" is a member of...):
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)
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