GENUS COLUMNEA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Columnea" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Columnea"):

columnea (tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage)

Holonyms ("genus Columnea" is a member of...):

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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