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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 cover
Familiarity information: PACHYSANDRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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