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GENUS PETUNIA

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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Petunia mean?

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

1. annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS PETUNIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Petunia; Petunia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Petunia"):

petunia (any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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