GENUS SPERGULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Spergula mean? 

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

1. small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SPERGULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spergula; Spergula

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Spergula"):

corn spurrey; corn spurry; Spergula arvensis (small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))