GENUS ASPERULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Asperula mean? 

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

1. woodruff

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ASPERULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Woodruff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asperula; genus Asperula

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Asperula"):

woodruff (any plant of the genus Asperula)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)