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GUINEA FLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guinea flower mean?
• GUINEA FLOWER (noun)
The noun GUINEA FLOWER has 1 sense:
1. any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers
Familiarity information: GUINEA FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
guinea flower; guinea gold vine
Hypernyms ("guinea flower" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("guinea flower" is a member of...):
genus Hibbertia; Hibbertia (evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia)
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