/ English Dictionary |
GENUS ALLAMANDA
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical American woody vines
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Allamanda" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Allamanda"):
allamanda (a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes)
Holonyms ("genus Allamanda" is a member of...):
Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)