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GENLISEA

• GENLISEA (noun)
The noun GENLISEA has 1 sense:

1. rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs

Familiarity information: GENLISEA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENLISEA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genlisea" is a kind of...):

carnivorous plant (plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals)

Holonyms ("genlisea" is a member of...):

genus Genlisea (small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps)

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