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GENUS SEBASTIANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sebastiana mean?
• GENUS SEBASTIANA (noun)
The noun GENUS SEBASTIANA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS SEBASTIANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mexican spurges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Sebastiana; Sebastiana
Hypernyms ("genus Sebastiana" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (parts of "genus Sebastiana"):
jumping bean; jumping seed; Mexican jumping bean (seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble)
Holonyms ("genus Sebastiana" is a member of...):
Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)
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