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GENUS PLUMBAGO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Plumbago mean?
• GENUS PLUMBAGO (noun)
The noun GENUS PLUMBAGO has 1 sense:
1. shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort
Familiarity information: GENUS PLUMBAGO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Plumbago" 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 Plumbago"):
plumbago (any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago)
leadwort; Plumbago europaea (a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Plumbago" is a member of...):
family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family (perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas)
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