PLANT GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant genus mean? 

• PLANT GENUS (noun)
  The noun PLANT GENUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of plants

  Familiarity information: PLANT GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plant genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

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

genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)

Erythroxylon; Erythroxylum; genus Erythroxylon; genus Erythroxylum (a large genus of South American shrubs and small trees of the family Erythroxylaceae)

Crassula; genus Crassula (type genus of Crassulaceae; herbs and small shrubs having woody stems and succulent aerial parts)

genus Sedum (large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves)

Aeonium; genus Aeonium (a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae)

genus Ribes; Ribes (a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere)

genus Phlox (herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico)

genus Linanthus; Linanthus (a genus of herbs of the family Polemoniaceae; found in western United States)

Borago; genus Borago (perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region)

Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia (rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks)

genus Anchusa (rough and hairy Old World herbs)

Cynoglossum; genus Cynoglossum (a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae)

Echium; genus Echium (a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)

genus Geranium (genus of mostly North American geraniums: cranesbills)

genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum (annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia)

genus Mertensia; Mertensia (a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels)

genus Myosotis; Myosotis (forget-me-nots; scorpion grass)

genus Onosmodium; Onosmodium (a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae)

genus Symphytum; Symphytum (comfrey)

genus Utricularia; Utricularia (bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants; cosmopolitan in distribution)

genus Pinguicula; Pinguicula (butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica)

genus Genlisea (small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps)

genus Martynia (in some classifications includes the unicorn plants)

genus Sesamum; Sesamum (tropical African and Indian herbs)

genus Proboscidea; Proboscidea (in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants)

genus Parrotia; Parrotia (one species: iron tree)

genus Sequoiadendron; Sequoiadendron (giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae)

genus Campanula (large genus of herbs grown for their blossoms: bellflowers)

Dioscorea; genus Dioscorea (yams)

genus Tamus; Tamus (a genus of tuberous vines of the family Dioscoreaceae; has twining stems and heart-shaped leaves and axillary racemes)

Agrostis; genus Agrostis (annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland))

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)

Avena; genus Avena (oats)

genus Hamamelis; Hamamelis (deciduous shrubs or small trees: witch hazel)

Corylopsis; genus Corylopsis (small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia)

Fothergilla; genus Fothergilla (small genus of deciduous shrubs of the southeastern United States)

genus Liquidambar; Liquidambar (sweet gum)

genus Parrotiopsis; Parrotiopsis (one species: deciduous tree of the Himalaya Mountains)

genus Laguncularia; Laguncularia (a genus of Laguncularia)

genus Lagerstroemia; Lagerstroemia (shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers)

Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)

Aframomum; genus Aframomum (an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae)

genus Paris; Paris (sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae)

genus Linum; Linum (a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves)

genus Physostigma; Physostigma (African woody vines: calabar beans)

Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)

genus Livistona; Livistona (fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia)

genus Phytelephas; phytelephas (small genus of South American feather palms)

Holonyms ("plant genus" is a member of...):

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

 Context examples 

Seed isolated from one of several species of the plant genus Linum.

(Flaxseed, NCI Thesaurus)