ARCTOTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctotis mean? 

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

1. herbs and subshrubs: African daisy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCTOTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs and subshrubs: African daisy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arctotis; genus Arctotis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Arctotis"):

African daisy (any of several plants of the genus Arctotis having daisylike flowers)

Arctotis stoechadifolia; Arctotis venusta; blue-eyed African daisy (bushy perennial of South Africa with white or violet flowers; in its native region often clothes entire valley sides in a sheet of color)

Holonyms ("Arctotis" 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)