GENUS COLUMNEA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Columnea mean? 

• GENUS COLUMNEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS COLUMNEA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas

  Familiarity information: GENUS COLUMNEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COLUMNEA (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Columnea" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Columnea"):

columnea (tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage)

Holonyms ("genus Columnea" is a member of...):

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)