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GENUS TETRAGONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tetragonia mean?
• GENUS TETRAGONIA (noun)
The noun GENUS TETRAGONIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS TETRAGONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
New Zealand spinach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tetragonia; Tetragonia
Hypernyms ("genus Tetragonia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tetragonia"):
New Zealand spinach; Tetragonia expansa; Tetragonia tetragonioides (coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves)
Holonyms ("genus Tetragonia" is a member of...):
Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)
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