GENUS CORYDALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Corydalis mean? 

• GENUS CORYDALIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CORYDALIS has 2 senses:

1. annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa

2. type genus of the Corydalidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS CORYDALIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CORYDALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corydalis; genus Corydalis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Corydalis"):

corydalis (a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers)

climbing corydalis; Corydalis claviculata; Fumaria claviculata (annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genus Corydalis"):

Corydalis sempervirens; Fumaria sempervirens; rock harlequin; Roman wormwood (glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria)

Corydalis solida; fumeroot; fumewort (herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers)

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

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Type genus of the Corydalidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Corydalis; Corydalus; genus Corydalis; genus Corydalus

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Corydalis"):

Corydalus cornutus; dobson; dobson fly; dobsonfly (large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait)

dobson; hellgrammiate (large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait)

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

Corydalidae; family Corydalidae (dobsons)