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GENUS PEIRESKIA

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

1. genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers

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

• GENUS PEIRESKIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Peireskia"):

Barbados gooseberry; Barbados-gooseberry vine; Pereskia aculeata (West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits)

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

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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