GENUS ACHIMENES

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical perennial American herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Achimenes"):

achimenes; hot water plant (any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias)

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

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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