ACANTHOCEREUS

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Meaning:

Mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region

Synonyms:

Acanthocereus; genus Acanthocereus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

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

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