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NICANDRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nicandra mean?
• NICANDRA (noun)
The noun NICANDRA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NICANDRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sturdy annual of Peru
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nicandra; Nicandra
Hypernyms ("Nicandra" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Nicandra"):
apple of Peru; Nicandra physaloides; shoo fly (coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry)
Holonyms ("Nicandra" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
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