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GENUS NAPAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Napaea mean? 

GENUS NAPAEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS NAPAEA has 1 sense:

1. one species: glade mallowplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS NAPAEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: glade mallow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Napaea; Napaea

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Napaea"):

glade mallow; Napaea dioica (tall coarse American herb having palmate leaves and numerous small white dioecious flowers; found wild in most alluvial soils of eastern and central United States)

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

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)


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