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GENUS POTHOS

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Meaning:

Evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil

Synonyms:

genus Pothos; genus Scindapsus; Scindapsus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pothos"):

pothos (any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus)

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

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)

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