CORYDALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Corydalis mean? 

• CORYDALIS (noun)
  The noun CORYDALIS has 3 senses:

1. a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers

2. annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa

3. type genus of the Corydalidae

  Familiarity information: CORYDALIS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYDALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

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

Corydalis; genus Corydalis (annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corydalis; genus Corydalis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Corydalis"):

corydalis (a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers)

climbing corydalis; Corydalis claviculata; Fumaria claviculata (annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Corydalis"):

Corydalis sempervirens; Fumaria sempervirens; rock harlequin; Roman wormwood (glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria)

Corydalis solida; fumeroot; fumewort (herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers)

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

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Type genus of the Corydalidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Corydalis; Corydalus; genus Corydalis; genus Corydalus

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Corydalis"):

Corydalus cornutus; dobson; dobson fly; dobsonfly (large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait)

dobson; hellgrammiate (large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait)

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

Corydalidae; family Corydalidae (dobsons)