PETUNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Petunia mean? 

• PETUNIA (noun)
  The noun PETUNIA has 2 senses:

1. any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers

2. annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America

  Familiarity information: PETUNIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETUNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("petunia" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "petunia"):

large white petunia; Petunia axillaris (annual herb having large nocturnally fragrant white flowers)

Petunia integrifolia; violet-flowered petunia (herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to rose-red flowers)

hybrid petunia; Petunia hybrida (hybrids of Petunia axillaris and Petunia integrifolia: a complex group of petunias having single or double flowers in colors from white to purple)

Holonyms ("petunia" is a member of...):

genus Petunia; Petunia (annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Petunia; Petunia

Hypernyms ("Petunia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Petunia"):

petunia (any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers)

Holonyms ("Petunia" 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)