ALOE
Dictionary entry overview: What does aloe mean? • ALOE (noun)
The noun ALOE has 1 sense:
1. succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
Familiarity information: ALOE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ALOE (noun)
Meaning:
Succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("aloe" is a kind of...):
succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aloe"):
Aloe ferox; cape aloe (much-branched South African plant with reddish prickly succulent leaves)
Aloe vera; burn plant (very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants)
Holonyms ("aloe" is a member of...):
genus Aloe (large genus of chiefly African liliaceous plants; in some systems placed in family Aloeaceae)
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