CALLIANDRA
Dictionary entry overview: What does calliandra mean? • CALLIANDRA (noun)
The noun CALLIANDRA has 1 sense:
1. any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers
Familiarity information: CALLIANDRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CALLIANDRA (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("calliandra" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
Holonyms ("calliandra" is a member of...):
genus Calliandra (genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa)
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