PIPTURUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Pipturus mean? • PIPTURUS (noun)
The noun PIPTURUS has 1 sense:
1. an Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae
Familiarity information: PIPTURUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PIPTURUS (noun)
Meaning:
An Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pipturus; Pipturus
Hypernyms ("Pipturus" 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 "Pipturus"):
Pipturus argenteus; Queensland grass-cloth plant (Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth)
Pipturus albidus (Hawaiian tree of genus Pipturus having a bark (tapa) from which tapa cloth is made)
Holonyms ("Pipturus" is a member of...):
family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)
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