GENUS ORITES
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Orites mean? • GENUS ORITES (noun)
The noun GENUS ORITES has 1 sense:
1. small genus of Australian shrubs or trees
Familiarity information: GENUS ORITES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS ORITES (noun)
Meaning:
Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Orites; Orites
Hypernyms ("genus Orites" 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 Orites"):
Orites excelsa; prickly ash (Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Orites" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
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