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SCHLUMBERGERA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti

Synonyms:

genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Schlumbergera"):

Christmas cactus; Schlumbergera baridgesii; Schlumbergera buckleyi (epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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