COCCULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cocculus mean? 

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

1. climbing plants or shrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCCULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing plants or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cocculus; genus Cocculus

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cocculus"):

Carolina moonseed; Cocculus carolinus (woody vine of southeastern United States resembling the common moonseed but having red fruits)

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

family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family (herbaceous or woody climbers)

 Context examples 

Cocculus/nux vomica/tabacum/petroleum extract contains equal homeopathic units of the following extracts: extract of Cocculus indicus (fish berry), the fruit of the southeast Asian/Indian climbing plant Anamirta cocculus; extract of the seeds of Strychnos nux vomica (poison nut), an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia; extract of Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco); and petroleum.

(Cocculus/Nux vomica/Tabacum/Petroleum Extract, NCI Thesaurus)