LASTHENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lasthenia mean? 

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

1. small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASTHENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lasthenia; Lasthenia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Lasthenia"):

goldfields; Lasthenia chrysostoma (small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated)

Holonyms ("Lasthenia" 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)