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GENUS PYRULARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pyrularia mean?
• GENUS PYRULARIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PYRULARIA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs
Familiarity information: GENUS PYRULARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia
Hypernyms ("genus Pyrularia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pyrularia"):
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)
Holonyms ("genus Pyrularia" is a member of...):
family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)
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