GENUS POLEMONIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Polemonium mean? 

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

1. type genus of the Polemoniaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS POLEMONIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Polemoniaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Polemonium"):

polemonium (any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions)

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

family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae (a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers)