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    STARFISH FLOWER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    carrion flower; stapelia; starfish flower

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("starfish flower" is a kind of...):

    herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "starfish flower"):

    Stapelias asterias (stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas)

    Holonyms ("starfish flower" is a member of...):

    genus Stapelia (genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India)

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