GENUS CELOSIA

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa

Synonyms:

Celosia; genus Celosia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Celosia" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Celosia"):

Celosia argentea; red fox (weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Celosia" is a member of...):

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)