GOLDEN SPLEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does golden spleen mean? 

• GOLDEN SPLEEN (noun)
  The noun GOLDEN SPLEEN has 1 sense:

1. any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium

  Familiarity information: GOLDEN SPLEEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDEN SPLEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden saxifrage; golden spleen

Hypernyms ("golden spleen" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "golden spleen"):

Chrysosplenium americanum; water carpet; water mat (aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States)

Holonyms ("golden spleen" is a member of...):

Chrysosplenium; genus Chrysosplenium (genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers)