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TRADESCANTIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tradescantia mean?
• TRADESCANTIA (noun)
The noun TRADESCANTIA has 1 sense:
1. spiderworts
Familiarity information: TRADESCANTIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiderworts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tradescantia; Tradescantia
Hypernyms ("Tradescantia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("Tradescantia" is a member of...):
Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family (large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts)
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