GENUS RHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Rhus mean? 

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

1. deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS RHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rhus; Rhus

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Rhus"):

shumac; sumac; sumach (a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus))

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

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)