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SELENICEREUS GRANDIFLORUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Selenicereus grandiflorus mean?
• SELENICEREUS GRANDIFLORUS (noun)
The noun SELENICEREUS GRANDIFLORUS has 1 sense:
1. tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits
Familiarity information: SELENICEREUS GRANDIFLORUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SELENICEREUS GRANDIFLORUS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
queen of the night; Selenicereus grandiflorus
Hypernyms ("Selenicereus grandiflorus" is a kind of...):
night-blooming cereus (any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus)
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