GENUS DIGITALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Digitalis mean? 

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

1. genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DIGITALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Digitalis"):

digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)

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

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)