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MALVAVISCUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Malvaviscus mean?
• MALVAVISCUS (noun)
The noun MALVAVISCUS has 1 sense:
1. small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows
Familiarity information: MALVAVISCUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus
Hypernyms ("Malvaviscus" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Malvaviscus"):
sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow (any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers)
Holonyms ("Malvaviscus" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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