GENUS LEMAIREOCEREUS

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Meaning:

Tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

Synonyms:

genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Lemaireocereus"):

chichipe; Lemaireocereus chichipe (tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)