GENUS PYRACANTHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pyracantha mean? 

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

1. Eurasian evergreen thorny shrubs bearing red or orange-red berries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PYRACANTHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian evergreen thorny shrubs bearing red or orange-red berries

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pyracantha"):

fire thorn; firethorn; pyracanth; Pyracantha (any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)