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GENUS CALCEOLARIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Calceolaria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Calceolaria"):
calceolaria; slipperwort (any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip)
Holonyms ("genus Calceolaria" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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