GENUS TITHONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tithonia mean? 

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

1. genus of robust herbs of Mexico and Central America: Mexican sunflower

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TITHONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of robust herbs of Mexico and Central America: Mexican sunflower

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Tithonia"):

Mexican sunflower; tithonia (any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays)

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

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)