GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cercidiphyllum mean?
• GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM has 1 sense:
1. one species: katsura tree
Familiarity information: GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM (noun)
Meaning:
One species: katsura tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cercidiphyllum; genus Cercidiphyllum
Hypernyms ("genus Cercidiphyllum" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cercidiphyllum"):
Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree (rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn)
Holonyms ("genus Cercidiphyllum" is a member of...):
Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)