GENUS EPISCIA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American herbs having soft hairy foliage

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Episcia"):

episcia (any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Episcia" 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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