Selenicereus

noun

mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night

• Syn: ↑genus Selenicereus

• Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot genus

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑night-blooming cereus

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\\sə̇|lēnə+\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from selen- (I) + Cereus

: a genus of mostly epiphytic climbing cacti ranging from southern Texas to Argentina and having ribbed or angled and not very spiny stems and immense white night-blooming flowers that are much prized in northern greenhouses