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GENUS MANIHOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Manihot mean?
• GENUS MANIHOT (noun)
The noun GENUS MANIHOT has 1 sense:
1. genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava
Familiarity information: GENUS MANIHOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Manihot; Manihot
Hypernyms ("genus Manihot" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Manihot"):
casava; cassava (any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch)
Holonyms ("genus Manihot" is a member of...):
Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)
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