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DRACUNCULUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dracunculus mean?
• DRACUNCULUS (noun)
The noun DRACUNCULUS has 2 senses:
1. tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum
2. type genus of the family Dracunculidae
Familiarity information: DRACUNCULUS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus
Hypernyms ("Dracunculus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Dracunculus"):
Dracunculus vulgaris; dragon arum; green dragon (European arum resembling the cuckoopint)
Holonyms ("Dracunculus" is a member of...):
Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Type genus of the family Dracunculidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus
Hypernyms ("Dracunculus" is a kind of...):
worm genus (a genus of worms)
Meronyms (members of "Dracunculus"):
Dracunculus medinensis; Guinea worm (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)
Holonyms ("Dracunculus" is a member of...):
Dracunculidae; family Dracunculidae (greatly elongated roundworm)
Context examples
A parasitic infection caused by Dracunculus medinensis.
(Dracunculiasis, NCI Thesaurus)
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