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GENUS VISCUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Viscum mean?
• GENUS VISCUM (noun)
The noun GENUS VISCUM has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Viscaceae: Old World evergreen shrubs parasitic on many trees including oaks but especially apple trees, poplars, aspens and cottonwoods
Familiarity information: GENUS VISCUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Viscaceae: Old World evergreen shrubs parasitic on many trees including oaks but especially apple trees, poplars, aspens and cottonwoods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Viscum; Viscum
Hypernyms ("genus Viscum" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Viscum"):
mistletoe; Old World mistletoe; Viscum album (Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas)
Holonyms ("genus Viscum" is a member of...):
family Viscaceae; mistletoe family; Viscaceae (in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae)
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