GENUS CRAMBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Crambe mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CRAMBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Crambe; genus Crambe

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Crambe"):

Crambe maritima; sea cole; sea kale (perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)