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GENUS GELSEMIUM

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gelsemium mean?

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

1. evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS GELSEMIUM (noun)

Sense 1

genus Gelsemium ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gelsemium; genus Gelsemium

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gelsemium"):

Carolina jasmine; evening trumpet flower; Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jasmine; yellow jessamine (poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers)

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

family Loganiaceae; Loganiaceae (a dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales)

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