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GENUS SERENOA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Serenoa mean?
• GENUS SERENOA (noun)
The noun GENUS SERENOA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS SERENOA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: saw palmetto
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Serenoa; Serenoa
Hypernyms ("genus Serenoa" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Serenoa"):
saw palmetto; scrub palmetto; Serenoa repens (small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Serenoa" is a member of...):
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)
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