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POTHOS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage

Synonyms:

Epipremnum aureum; golden pothos; ivy arum; pothos; Scindapsus aureus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pothos" is a kind of...):

liana (a woody climbing usually tropical plant)

Holonyms ("pothos" is a member of...):

Epipremnum; genus Epipremnum (small genus of evergreen lianas of southeastern Asia to western Pacific areas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pothos" is a kind of...):

liana (a woody climbing usually tropical plant)

Holonyms ("pothos" is a member of...):

genus Pothos; genus Scindapsus; Scindapsus (evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil)

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