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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 flowersplay

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Nouns denoting plants

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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