GENUS XERANTHEMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Xeranthemum mean? 

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

1. genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS XERANTHEMUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Xeranthemum"):

xeranthemum (any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers)

immortelle; Xeranthemum annuum (mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere)

Holonyms ("genus Xeranthemum" 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)