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GENUS ACONITUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Aconitum mean?
• GENUS ACONITUM (noun)
The noun GENUS ACONITUM has 1 sense:
1. genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal
Familiarity information: GENUS ACONITUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Aconitum; genus Aconitum
Hypernyms ("genus Aconitum" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Aconitum"):
aconite (any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Aconitum" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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