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GENUS ARMERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Armeria mean? 

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

1. shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennialsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ARMERIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Armeria; genus Armeria

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Armeria"):

thrift (any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers)

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

family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family (perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas)


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