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GENUS AESCHYNANTHUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Aeschynanthus" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Aeschynanthus"):
aeschynanthus (a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex)
Holonyms ("genus Aeschynanthus" 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)