GENUS GLADIOLUS

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Meaning:

Gladiolas

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Nouns denoting plants

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

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gladiolus"):

glad; gladiola; gladiolus; sword lily (any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated)

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

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)

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