HELIAMPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heliamphora mean? 

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

1. genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELIAMPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Heliamphora; Heliamphora

Hypernyms ("Heliamphora" 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 "Heliamphora"):

sun pitcher (any of several herbs of Guiana highlands having racemes of nodding white or pink flowers; trap and digest insects in pitcher-shaped leaves with spoon-shaped caps)

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

family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae (insectivorous plants)