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GENUS SCHEFFLERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Schefflera mean? 

GENUS SCHEFFLERA (noun)
  The noun GENUS SCHEFFLERA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliageplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SCHEFFLERA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Schefflera; Schefflera

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Schefflera"):

Brassaia actinophylla; Schefflera actinophylla; umbrella tree (erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves)

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

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)


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