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GUTIERREZIA SAROTHRAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gutierrezia sarothrae mean? 

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

1. low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower headsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GUTIERREZIA SAROTHRAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed

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

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

Holonyms ("Gutierrezia sarothrae" is a member of...):

genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia (sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America)


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