GENUS DRYAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Dryas mean? 

• GENUS DRYAS (noun)
  The noun GENUS DRYAS has 1 sense:

1. mountain avens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DRYAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mountain avens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dryas; genus Dryas

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Dryas"):

Dryas octopetala; mountain avens (creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)