GENUS TRILLIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Trillium mean? 

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

1. deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TRILLIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

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

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Trillium"):

trillium; wake-robin; wood lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower)

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

family Trilliaceae; Trilliaceae; trillium family (small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae)