ARCEUTHOBIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arceuthobium mean? 

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

1. genus of chiefly American plants parasitic on conifers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCEUTHOBIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of chiefly American plants parasitic on conifers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arceuthobium; genus Arceuthobium

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Arceuthobium"):

American mistletoe; Arceuthobium pusillum (small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees)

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

family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)