BACCHARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baccharis mean? 

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

1. shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACCHARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Baccharis; genus Baccharis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Baccharis"):

Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree (a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts)

Baccharis viminea; mule fat (California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer)

Baccharis pilularis; chaparral broom; coyote brush; coyote bush; kidney wort (widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle)

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

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)