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SELENICEREUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night

Synonyms:

genus Selenicereus; Selenicereus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Selenicereus"):

night-blooming cereus (any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus)

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

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

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