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GENUS AGRIMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Agrimonia mean? 

GENUS AGRIMONIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS AGRIMONIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of herbs found chiefly in north temperate regions having pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by bristly fruitplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGRIMONIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS AGRIMONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs found chiefly in north temperate regions having pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by bristly fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Agrimonia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Agrimonia"):

agrimonia; agrimony (a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Agrimonia" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)


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