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GOODENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Goodenia mean?
• GOODENIA (noun)
The noun GOODENIA has 1 sense:
1. a genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia
Familiarity information: GOODENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Goodenia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Holonyms ("Goodenia" is a member of...):
family Goodeniaceae; Goodenia family; Goodeniaceae (a family of sappy plants that grow in Australasia and southeast China)
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