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GENUS GENLISEA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Genlisea" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Genlisea"):
genlisea (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)
Holonyms ("genus Genlisea" is a member of...):
bladderwort family; family Lentibulariaceae; Lentibulariaceae (carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea)