GENUS SPATHIPHYLLUM

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Meaning:

Evergreen rhizomatous perennials of tropical America and Philippines and Indonesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Spathiphyllum" 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 Spathiphyllum"):

peace lily; spathe flower; spathiphyllum (any of various plants of the genus Spathiphyllum having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental)

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

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

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