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LAVATERA

• LAVATERA (noun)
The noun LAVATERA has 1 sense:

1. widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers

Familiarity information: LAVATERA used as a noun is very rare.

• LAVATERA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lavatera; Lavatera

Hypernyms ("Lavatera" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Lavatera"):

Lavatera arborea; tree mallow; velvet-leaf; velvetleaf (arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States)

Holonyms ("Lavatera" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)

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