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GENUS GLOXINIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gloxinia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gloxinia"):
Canterbury bell; Gloxinia perennis (herb of Colombia to Peru having pale purple flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Gloxinia" 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)
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