GENUS VANILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vanilla mean? 

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

1. large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VANILLA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Vanilla" 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 Vanilla"):

vanilla (any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers)

vanilla orchid; Vanilla planifolia (a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America)

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

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)