Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catharanthus

1 sense of catharanthus

Sense 1
Catharanthus, genus Catharanthus -- (small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca)
       => dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus -- (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)