SEBASTIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sebastiana mean? 

• SEBASTIANA (noun)
  The noun SEBASTIANA has 1 sense:

1. Mexican spurges

  Familiarity information: SEBASTIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEBASTIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mexican spurges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sebastiana; Sebastiana

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (parts of "Sebastiana"):

jumping bean; jumping seed; Mexican jumping bean (seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble)

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

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)