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GENUS SEDUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sedum mean? 

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

1. large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leavesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SEDUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sedum"):

sedum (any of various plants of the genus Sedum)

stonecrop (any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers)

Sedum acre; wall pepper (mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover)

midsummer-men; rose-root; Sedum rosea (Eurasian mountain plant with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers)

live-forever; livelong; orpin; orpine; Sedum telephium (perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers)

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

Crassulaceae; family Crassulaceae; stonecrop family (succulent shrubs and herbs)


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