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HAEMANTHUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies
Synonyms:
genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("Haemanthus" is a member of...):
Amaryllidaceae; amaryllis family; family Amaryllidaceae (snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae)
