GENUS GALIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Galium mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GALIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Galium; genus Galium

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Galium"):

bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)