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PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Parthenium argentatum mean?
• PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM (noun)
The noun PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM has 1 sense:
1. much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
Familiarity information: PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
guayule; Parthenium argentatum
Hypernyms ("Parthenium argentatum" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("Parthenium argentatum" is a member of...):
genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)
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