ENCELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Encelia mean? 

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

1. genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Encelia; genus Encelia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Encelia"):

brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso (fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine)

Holonyms ("Encelia" 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)