GENUS TAMARIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tamarix mean? 

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

1. genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TAMARIX (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tamarix; Tamarix

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Tamarix"):

tamarisk (any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil)

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

family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family (family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes))