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HARRISIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America
Synonyms:
genus Harrisia; Harrisia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Harrisia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Holonyms ("Harrisia" is a member of...):
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)