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GENUS CALYSTEGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed
Synonyms:
Calystegia; genus Calystegia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Calystegia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Calystegia"):
Calystegia sepium; Convolvulus sepium; hedge bindweed; wild morning-glory (common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus)
Holonyms ("genus Calystegia" is a member of...):
Convolvulaceae; family Convolvulaceae; morning-glory family (morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit)