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GENUS SANGUINARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sanguinaria mean? 

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

1. one species: bloodrootplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SANGUINARIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: bloodroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sanguinaria; Sanguinaria

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sanguinaria"):

bloodroot; puccoon; redroot; Sanguinaria canadensis; tetterwort (perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant)

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

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)


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