GESNERIAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gesneriad mean? 

• GESNERIAD (noun)
  The noun GESNERIAD has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia

  Familiarity information: GESNERIAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GESNERIAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gesneriad" is a kind of...):

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Holonyms ("gesneriad" is a member of...):

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)