RUMEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rumex mean? 

• RUMEX (noun)
  The noun RUMEX has 1 sense:

1. docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

  Familiarity information: RUMEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUMEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rumex; Rumex

Hypernyms ("Rumex" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Rumex"):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

Holonyms ("Rumex" is a member of...):

buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)

 Context examples 

The scientific name is Rumex acetosella.

(Dock, NCI Dictionary)

An herbal formula containing burdock root (Arctium lappa), Turkey rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum), sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella), and slippery elm bark (Ulmus fulva) with potential immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor activities.

(Essiac, NCI Thesaurus)