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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 flowers
Familiarity information: PARTHENIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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