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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 America
Familiarity information: SOLANDRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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