GENUS SALPICHROA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Salpichroa mean? 

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

1. herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SALPICHROA (noun)

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Meaning:

Herbs of temperate North and South America: cock's eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Salpichroa; Salpichroa

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Salpichroa"):

cock's eggs; Salpichroa organifolia; Salpichroa rhomboidea (weedy vine of Argentina having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)