ANTENNARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antennaria mean? 

• ANTENNARIA (noun)
  The noun ANTENNARIA has 1 sense:

1. small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles

  Familiarity information: ANTENNARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTENNARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Antennaria; genus Antennaria

Hypernyms ("Antennaria" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Antennaria"):

Antennaria plantaginifolia; ladies' tobacco; lady's tobacco (North American perennial propagated by means of runners)

Antennaria dioica; cat's feet; cat's foot; pussytoes (low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers)

Holonyms ("Antennaria" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)