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PACHYSANDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pachysandra mean? 

PACHYSANDRA (noun)
  The noun PACHYSANDRA has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground coverplay

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


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PACHYSANDRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pachysandra"):

Allegheny mountain spurge; Allegheny spurge; Pachysandra procumbens (low semi-evergreen perennial herb having small spikes of white or pinkish flowers; native to southern United States but grown elsewhere)

Japanese spurge; Pachysandra terminalis (slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover)

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

genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)


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