gesneria family
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1. large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | asterid dicot family, |
definition | : | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | gesneriad, |
definition | : | any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus gesneria, |
definition | : | large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus achimenes, |
definition | : | genus of tropical perennial American herbs (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus aeschynanthus, |
definition | : | large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | alsobia, genus alsobia, |
definition | : | tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus columnea, |
definition | : | genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus episcia, |
definition | : | genus of tropical American herbs having soft hairy foliage (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus gloxinia, |
definition | : | small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | gloxinia, |
definition | : | any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus kohleria, |
definition | : | genus of tropical American shrubs (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus sinningia, sinningia, |
definition | : | genus of perennial tuberous herbs and shrubs of Central and South America (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus streptocarpus, |
definition | : | large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | order polemoniales, polemoniales, |
definition | : | Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
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