GENUS GENLISEA

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Meaning:

Small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps

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Nouns denoting plants

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Genlisea"):

genlisea (rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs)

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

bladderwort family; family Lentibulariaceae; Lentibulariaceae (carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea)

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