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    GENUS HAEMANTHUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood liliesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Haemanthus" 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 Haemanthus"):

    blood lily (any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia)

    Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus (spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa)

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

    Amaryllidaceae; amaryllis family; family Amaryllidaceae (snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae)

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