GENUS PERSOONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Persoonia mean? 

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

1. Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PERSOONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Persoonia; Persoonia

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Persoonia"):

geebung (any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)