ERIOGONUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eriogonum mean? 

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

1. any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERIOGONUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eriogonum"):

Eriogonum allenii; umbrella plant (late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters)

California buckwheat; Erigonum fasciculatum; wild buckwheat (low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah))

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

genus Eriogonum (North American herbs of the buckwheat family)