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PARTHENIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parthenium mean? 

PARTHENIUM (noun)
  The noun PARTHENIUM has 1 sense:

1. small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTHENIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Parthenium; Parthenium

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Parthenium"):

guayule; Parthenium argentatum (much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber)

bastard feverfew; Parthenium hysterophorus (tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States)

American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine (stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns)

Holonyms ("Parthenium" 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)


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