DRACULA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Dracula mean? • DRACULA (noun)
The noun DRACULA has 2 senses:
1. comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
2. fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
Familiarity information: DRACULA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DRACULA (noun)
Meaning:
Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dracula; genus Dracula
Hypernyms ("Dracula" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("Dracula" is a member of...):
family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)
Meaning:
Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
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