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SOLANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Solandra mean? 

SOLANDRA (noun)
  The noun SOLANDRA has 1 sense:

1. shrubby climbers of tropical Americaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SOLANDRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby climbers of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Solandra; Solandra

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Solandra"):

chalice vine; cupflower; Solandra guttata; trumpet flower (Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat)

Holonyms ("Solandra" 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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