GENUS SALPIGLOSSIS

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Meaning:

Small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Salpiglossis"):

salpiglossis (any plant of the genus Salpiglossis)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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