COPTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coptis mean? 

• COPTIS (noun)
  The noun COPTIS has 1 sense:

1. small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers

  Familiarity information: COPTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coptis; genus Coptis

Hypernyms ("Coptis" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Coptis"):

Coptis groenlandica; Coptis trifolia groenlandica; golden thread; goldthread (low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers)

Holonyms ("Coptis" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

 Context examples 

A Chinese herb of a desiccated root from the plant Coptis chinensis.

(Huang Lian, NCI Thesaurus)