ZIGADENUS ELEGANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zigadenus elegans mean? 

• ZIGADENUS ELEGANS (noun)
  The noun ZIGADENUS ELEGANS has 1 sense:

1. plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers

  Familiarity information: ZIGADENUS ELEGANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZIGADENUS ELEGANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

alkali grass; Zigadenus elegans

Hypernyms ("Zigadenus elegans" is a kind of...):

death camas; zigadene (any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous)

Holonyms ("Zigadenus elegans" is a member of...):

genus Zigadenus; Zigadenus (genus of mostly North American poisonous plants; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)