GENUS VACCARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vaccaria mean? 

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

1. cow-cockles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VACCARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cow-cockles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Vaccaria"):

cow cockle; cowherb; Saponaria vaccaria; Vaccaria hispanica; Vaccaria pyramidata (European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort)

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

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