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GENUS NELUMBO

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Meaning:

Sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses

Synonyms:

genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nelumbo"):

American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin (water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds)

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

Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)

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