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ZIGADENUS GLAUCUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Zigadenus glaucus mean?
• ZIGADENUS GLAUCUS (noun)
The noun ZIGADENUS GLAUCUS has 1 sense:
1. plant of eastern and central North America having creamy white flowers tinged with brown or purple; poisonous especially to grazing animals
Familiarity information: ZIGADENUS GLAUCUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant of eastern and central North America having creamy white flowers tinged with brown or purple; poisonous especially to grazing animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
white camas; Zigadenus glaucus
Hypernyms ("Zigadenus glaucus" 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 glaucus" is a member of...):
genus Zigadenus; Zigadenus (genus of mostly North American poisonous plants; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)
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