ALSTROEMERIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does alstroemeria mean? • ALSTROEMERIA (noun)
The noun ALSTROEMERIA has 1 sense:
1. any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers
Familiarity information: ALSTROEMERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ALSTROEMERIA (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("alstroemeria" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alstroemeria"):
Alstroemeria pelegrina; lily of the Incas; Peruvian lily (an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lilylike flowers)
Holonyms ("alstroemeria" is a member of...):
genus Alstroemeria (genus of showy South American herbs with leafy stems; sometimes placed in family Alstroemeriaceae or in family Amaryllidaceae)
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