GENUS ARALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Aralia mean? 

• GENUS ARALIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ARALIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ARALIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Aralia"):

aralia (any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers)

American angelica tree; Aralia spinosa; devil's walking stick; Hercules'-club (small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States)

Aralia nudicaulis; false sarsaparilla; wild sarsaparilla; wild sarsparilla (common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America)

American spikenard; Aralia racemosa; life-of-man; petty morel (unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico)

Aralia hispida; bristly sarsaparilla; bristly sarsparilla; dwarf elder (bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark)

Aralia elata; Japanese angelica tree (deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States)

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

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)