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GENUS CROCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Crocus mean? 

GENUS CROCUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CROCUS has 1 sense:

1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS CROCUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Crocus"):

crocus (any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated)

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

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)


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