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TROPAEOLUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: tropaeola   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A tropical American genus of dicotyledonous climbing or diffuse pungent herbs constituting the family Tropaeolaceae

Synonyms:

genus Tropaeolum; Tropaeolum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tropaeolum"):

nasturtium (any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers)

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

family Tropaeolaceae; nasturtium family; Tropaeolaceae (coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum)

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