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BELAMCANDA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae

Synonyms:

Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "Belamcanda"):

Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily (garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry)

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

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)

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