saintpaulia

English Thesaurus

1. east African herb with nodding flowers; widely cultivated (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	asterid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	african violet, saintpaulia ionantha,
definition	:	tropical African plant cultivated as a houseplant for its violet or white or pink flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family gesneriaceae, gesneria family, gesneriaceae,
definition	:	large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant)