GUTIERREZIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gutierrezia mean? 

• GUTIERREZIA (noun)
  The noun GUTIERREZIA has 1 sense:

1. sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America

  Familiarity information: GUTIERREZIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUTIERREZIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia

Hypernyms ("Gutierrezia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Gutierrezia"):

matchbush; matchweed (any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches)

broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed (low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads)

broom-weed; broomweed; Gutierrezia texana (annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Gutierrezia" 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)