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GENUS RUMEX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Rumex mean?
• GENUS RUMEX (noun)
The noun GENUS RUMEX has 1 sense:
1. docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions
Familiarity information: GENUS RUMEX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Rumex; Rumex
Hypernyms ("genus Rumex" 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 Rumex"):
dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)
Holonyms ("genus Rumex" is a member of...):
buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)
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