HARRISIA

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Meaning:

Genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America

Synonyms:

genus Harrisia; Harrisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Harrisia" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Holonyms ("Harrisia" is a member of...):

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

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