CHILOPSIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Chilopsis mean? • CHILOPSIS (noun)
The noun CHILOPSIS has 1 sense:
1. one species: desert willow
Familiarity information: CHILOPSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CHILOPSIS (noun)
Meaning:
One species: desert willow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chilopsis; genus Chilopsis
Hypernyms ("Chilopsis" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Chilopsis"):
Chilopsis linearis; desert willow (evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers and long seed pods)
Holonyms ("Chilopsis" is a member of...):
Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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