GENUS HELIANTHEMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Helianthemum mean? 

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

1. widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HELIANTHEMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Helianthemum"):

helianthemum; sun rose; sunrose (any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions)

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

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)