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GENUS MENZIESIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Menziesia mean?
• GENUS MENZIESIA (noun)
The noun GENUS MENZIESIA has 1 sense:
1. deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia
Familiarity information: GENUS MENZIESIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Menziesia; Menziesia
Hypernyms ("genus Menziesia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Menziesia"):
false azalea; fool's huckleberry; Menziesia ferruginea (straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers)
Menziesia pilosa; minnie bush; minniebush (low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs)
Holonyms ("genus Menziesia" is a member of...):
Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)
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