MENYANTHES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Menyanthes mean? 

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

1. the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENYANTHES (noun)

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Meaning:

The type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Menyanthes"):

bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock (perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface)

Holonyms ("Menyanthes" is a member of...):

buckbean family; family Menyanthaceae; Menyanthaceae (a dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales)