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GENUS STAPELIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Stapelia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Stapelia"):
carrion flower; stapelia; starfish flower (any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers)
Stapelias asterias (stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas)
Holonyms ("genus Stapelia" is a member of...):
Asclepiadaceae; family Asclepiadaceae; milkweed family (widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice)
