ASARUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asarum mean? 

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

1. wild ginger

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASARUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wild ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asarum; genus Asarum

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Asarum"):

wild ginger (low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes)

Asarum shuttleworthii; heart-leaf; heartleaf (wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama)

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

Aristolochiaceae; birthwort family; family Aristolochiaceae (family of birthworts (including wild ginger))