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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 heads
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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