genus medinilla

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   tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers

   SynonymsMedinilla

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofMelastomataceae

Questions about genus medinilla

What does genus medinilla mean?

genus medinilla means "tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers".

What is another word for genus medinilla?

Close synonyms include Medinilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus medinilla a common word?

genus medinilla is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.