PEDILANTHUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tropical American succulent shrubs

Synonyms:

genus Pedilanthus; Pedilanthus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pedilanthus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Pedilanthus"):

slipper plant; slipper spurge (any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts)

Holonyms ("Pedilanthus" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)