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GENUS PANDANUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pandanus mean?
• GENUS PANDANUS (noun)
The noun GENUS PANDANUS has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines)
Familiarity information: GENUS PANDANUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Pandanus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pandanus"):
pandanus; screw pine (any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves)
Holonyms ("genus Pandanus" is a member of...):
family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family (family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus)
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