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GENUS PAVONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pavonia mean?
• GENUS PAVONIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PAVONIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical hairy shrubs or herbs of tropics and subtropics especially South America
Familiarity information: GENUS PAVONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical hairy shrubs or herbs of tropics and subtropics especially South America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Pavonia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pavonia"):
pavonia (any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Pavonia" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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