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LAVATERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lavatera mean?
• LAVATERA (noun)
The noun LAVATERA has 1 sense:
1. widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers
Familiarity information: LAVATERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Lavatera; Lavatera
Hypernyms ("Lavatera" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Lavatera"):
Lavatera arborea; tree mallow; velvet-leaf; velvetleaf (arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("Lavatera" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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