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GENUS CENTAURIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Centaurium mean?
• GENUS CENTAURIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CENTAURIUM has 1 sense:
1. genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
Familiarity information: GENUS CENTAURIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Centaurium; genus Centaurium
Hypernyms ("genus Centaurium" 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 Centaurium"):
centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)
Holonyms ("genus Centaurium" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)
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