GENUS MIMOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mimosa mean? 

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

1. genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MIMOSA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mimosa"):

mimosa (any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves)

Mimosa sensitiva; sensitive plant (semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch)

action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not (prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled)

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

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)