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GENUS PIPTADENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Piptadenia mean?
• GENUS PIPTADENIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PIPTADENIA has 1 sense:
1. tropical American trees and shrubs; often placed in other genera
Familiarity information: GENUS PIPTADENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American trees and shrubs; often placed in other genera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Piptadenia; Piptadenia
Hypernyms ("genus Piptadenia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Holonyms ("genus Piptadenia" is a member of...):
Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)
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