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