GENUS COPTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Coptis mean? 

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

1. small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COPTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coptis; genus Coptis

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Coptis"):

Coptis groenlandica; Coptis trifolia groenlandica; golden thread; goldthread (low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)