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GENLISEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genlisea" is a kind of...):
carnivorous plant (plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals)
Holonyms ("genlisea" is a member of...):
genus Genlisea (small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps)
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