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Lemaireocereus

noun

tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

• Syn: ↑genus Lemaireocereus

• Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cactaceae, ↑family Cactaceae, ↑cactus family

• Member Meronyms: ↑chichipe, ↑Lemaireocereus chichipe

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\\lə|merēō+\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Charles Lemaire died 1871 French horticulturist + New Latin -o- + Cereus

: a genus of tropical American cacti usually of tall branching habit with stout spines, funnel-shaped flowers, and globular or ovoid often edible fruit — see chichipe

Useful english dictionary. 2012.