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GENUS GESNERIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gesneria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gesneria"):
gesneria (any plant of the genus Gesneria)
Holonyms ("genus Gesneria" is a member of...):
family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)